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The South Korean government said it is working to return to its nationals who were arrested in an immigration raid in a Hyundai Georgia installation last week.
Federal and immigration agents made a mass sweep in the plant in Ellabell, Georgia, arrested 475 people as part of an investigation into accusations of illegal work practices. A South Korean spokesman told NBC News that more than 300 of the arrests were South Korean citizens.
The US authorities, who had a search warrant, said that the workers arrested worked or lived in the country illegally.
The office of the president of South Korea, Lee Jae Myung, said Sunday that the detainees will be returned to South Korea on a chartered flight. When comments were requested on Monday, Hyundai ordered CNBC to his Friday statement that said he is “committed to the total compliance with all laws and regulations in all markets.”
Thursday's raid, the last of the repression of President Donald Trump against illegal immigration, marked the application of a single larger site of the National Security Department in its history, according to Steven Schrank, a special agent in charge of national security investigations in Georgia.
The Border Tsar of the White House, Tom Homan, said the “state of the Union” of CNN on Sunday that the Trump administration would continue to focus on the workplaces for immigration raids.
“We are going to do more operations to apply the work site,” he said. “These companies that hire illegal foreigners undermine their competence paid by the salaries of US citizens.”
The Georgia plant is home to South Korean companies Hyundai and LG Energy Solution, which are building a battery manufacturing plant together. The Hyundai plant of $ 7.6 billion uses more than 1,200 people. The company began building its manufacturing plant in 2022 and began making electric vehicles less than two years later, which made the plant one of the largest economic developments in the state.
LG Energy Solution said on Saturday that 47 of its employees were arrested, along with 250 additional people from “associated equipment.”
Schrank said the workers arrested were employed by contractors and subcontractors.
In a Friday statement, the US fiscal prosecutor Margaret Heap said that more than 400 agents participated in the raid.
“The objective of this operation is to reduce illegal employment and prevent employers from obtaining an unfair advantage through the hiring of unauthorized workers,” HEAP said in the statement. “Another objective is to protect unauthorized workers from exploitation.”
In a statement to NBC News on Friday, Hyundai said he was monitoring the situation and that none of the detainees were direct employees of the automotive company.
The South Korean government said Friday that it transmitted its “concern and regret” to the United States embassy and urged them to guarantee that the rights of South Korea employees are not violated.
“In the course of the US police, the economic activities of our investment companies and the rights and interests of our nationals should not be unfairly infringed,” said Lee Jae-Woong, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea.
In a real social publication, Trump wrote that he is asking all foreign companies to invest in the United States to “respect the immigration laws of our nation.”
“Your investments are welcome, and we recommend that you legally bring your very intelligent people, with great technical talent, to build world -class products, and we will do it quickly and legally to do so. What we ask in return is that you hire and train US workers,” he wrote.
Speaking to journalists on Sunday, Trump also said that the raid had no connection with the economic ties between the two countries, saying that the United States has “a great relationship” with South Korea.
Hyundai told NBC News on Monday morning that business trips to the United States remain in their place, with some trips subject to an internal review.
