Hyundai, LG workers caught up in immigration raid fly home to South Korea
The detainees ride on a bus during the raid of federal agents arrested between 475 people arrested by Hyundai motor of approximately 300 South Koreli in a project of 4.3 billion dollars.
USA Migration and Customs Enf | Through Reuters
An aircraft carrying hundreds of workers detained in the US immigrant raid at a Hyundai-LG energy solution battery facility in Georgia last week Yonhap News Agency Reports.
According to a statement from the South Korean Foreign Ministry translated by NBC News, more than 300 Korean was expected on the rented aircraft leaving Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
A South Korean rented aircraft detained in a large US immigrant raid on a car battery facility last week, on September 11, 2025, Georgia taxis on the track before going to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta.
ALYSSA POINTER | Reuters
The aircraft also carried 14 foreign employees of South Korean companies detained.
The departure of Thursday points to the latest development in a major diplomatic coldness that attracts the attention of both the United States and the businesses and politicians in South Korea.
US officials had a search order last Thursday, Georgia, Elabell entering the facility. They worked in the country without legal status or said that the custody workers lived.
South Koreans, South Korean companies Hyundai and LG Energy Solotion built by a battery facility, the majority of the total determination of the field formed.
Following RAID, Seoul established a “entire government response” in cooperation with the affected companies, according to the translated statement.
“The government will continue to make efforts until every Korean citizen safely returns home,” South Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement. He said.
Except for one of the South Korean citizens, where the US was detained in the raid, all of them voluntarily go on the flight.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it is now working between the two governments to cooperate on visa issues.
According to the comments of Hyundai CEO Jose Munoz, reported by Reuters during an event in Detroit, the dominant battery facility will now face a delay of at least two to three months.
Considering that the use of such labor was typically accepted as a plant starting, a plant, he said that he had initially heard that immigration action took place.
“You need to buy people specialized for the construction phase of plants.” He said. “There are many skills and equipment in the United States.”
