Immigration Crackdown At US Battery Plant: S. Korean Foreign Minister May Visit US | World News

Seoul: Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said on Saturday that hundreds of South Koreli can visit the United States to discuss the arrests of hundreds of South Koreli by US immigration in a South Korean battery facility area in Georgian state. Cho promised to preside in an emergency meeting in immigration edition and confirmed that more than 300 out of 457 people were detained were South Korean citizens.

Yonhap News Agency, “At the beginning of the meeting, attended by officials from the ministry and overseas duties,” We are very worried and we feel a heavy sense of responsibility for the arrests of our citizens. “He said.

“We will discuss sending a senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs without delay, and if necessary, I will travel to Washington personally to make consultations with the US administration.” He said.

Cho, President Lee Jae Myung’un authorities, the rights and interests of South Korean citizens and the US investments in the US, emphasizing that the business operations should not be violated, he said that they have instructed to make everything efforts to solve the issue quickly.

Second Foreign Minister Kim Ji-na said the United States was pressure and concern during a meeting with the Ambassador of Seoul Joseph Yun on Thursday.

US officials, on Thursday, near Savannah Bryunda County Hyundai Motor Co. and LG Energy Solotion Ltd. The joint venture between HL-GA Battery Co. A search ordered an electric vehicle battery facility construction site.

They defined the raid as a guilty investigation for alleged illegal employment practices.

US President Donald Trump said that people arrested on Friday were “illegal aliens” and that the immigration officials “do their jobs only”.

Steven Schrank, a special agent for Internal Security Research for Georgia (HSI), said that detained individuals contain people who contain them through a visa waiver program that banned them or exceeded their visas.

Most Georgia are held in a detention center in Folkston.

Hl-Ga Battery Co., the authorities completely cooperated and to help to work to work, he said.

US officials called RAID’s HSI’s “the largest single site application operation in the history of history”.

In a statement on Saturday, LG Energy Solution said that the US had suspended all business trips and instructed employees who are currently visiting the United States to stay in accommodation or return home immediately.

The company said that the company will leave the chief human resources officer the next day to address the problems on the site for the US.

“We will make every effort to solve the situation immediately, including the fast and safe return of all employees.”

47 of the detainees are confirmed as LG energy solution employees, while others are associated with the HL-GA battery.

Most of them, the planned completion of the facility next year, such as electrical installations reportedly sent to perform final construction work.