Hyundai construction site raid puts Trump’s competing agendas in spotlight
On Thursday, Savannah underlines the difficulties faced by the Trump administration to encourage US production while breaking the undocumented workers of the Trump administration at a large battery facility that is under construction just outside the GA.
These two priorities came to a mind when they said that they arrested 475 “illegal workers” when federal authorities called the largest, single -zone internal security application operation this week.
The arrests took place in a joint attempt of $ 4.3 billion between South Korean companies Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution. The facility will be opened next year and some will supply 300,000 lithium ion batteries annually for the adjacent Hyundai facility that makes Ioniq 5 Crossover and three -row Ioniq 9 electric vehicles.
Encouraging domestic production to reduce the confidence of the country to other countries is the cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s economic agenda. The authority claims that it provides approximately $ 9 trillion commitments from various companies and countries, including $ 450 billion from South Korea. Even last week, he hosted South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung at the White House, where he discussed the partnership of the two countries.
However, the building is intensive and many construction workers are immigrants. Approximately one quarter of the 11 million people working in the industry were born outside the United States and many are undocumented.
Private agent Steven Schrank, in a statement to journalists on Friday, Ellabell, Ga. The Wall Street Journal is trying to release South Korea’s citizens.
He said that most people arrested work for subcontractors. Hyundai said that none of the workers were employed directly by them. LG said that he would “cooperate completely with the authorities.
No criminal charges have been announced and detainees are kept in Folkston, GA in a migration and customs storage detention center.
“This operation underlines our commitment to protecting jobs for Georgians and Americans, providing a flat playground for laws that meet laws, protecting our economy and protecting workers from exploitation,” Schrank said.
According to a press release, the low voltage operation, the low voltage operation, was part of a wider attempt called Mars Holds of the Ministry of Justice, Marshals of the Ministry of Justice, which was initiated on the opening day of Trump in January.
Immigration advocates misleaded this. “This historical dominant dramatic headlines can make dramatic headlines, but does nothing to solve problems in our broken immigration system: lack of legal ways and focus on punishing workers and families who do not pose any threats to our communities, Mic
President Trump was also organized from the Oval Office on Friday and added “illegal aliens”, “Ice was doing his job”.
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