S.Korea to bring home 300 workers detained in US raid
The South Korean government announced that more than 300 South Korean workers were detained and brought home after a major migration pressure in a Hyundai factory in Georgian state of Georgia.
President Lee Jae Myung Chief of General Staff Kang Hoon-Sik, South Korea and the United States have finalized negotiations on the release of workers.
Authorized, South Korea, the remaining administrative steps are completed as soon as the workers plan to send a charter plane to bring, he said.
Foreign Minister Cho Hyun, South Korean media reported that Foreign Minister Cho Hyun will leave for talks about workers’ publications on Monday.
US immigrant officials on Friday, hundreds of federal agents in Georgia in Georgia, the electric vehicles in Georgia raided the production area of Georgia, most of the South Korean citizens detained 475 people, he said.
Cho, detained more than 300 South Korean, he said. The operation was the last of a long workplace raids carried out as part of the mass deportation agenda of the Trump administration.
However, especially the large size and the targeted site was different because it was launched as Georgia’s largest economic development project.
The raid stunned many people in South Korea because the country is a key ally of the United States. In July, he agreed to purchase $ 100 billion (A153 billion) in the US energy and invest in the United States in exchange for the United States, which reduced the US tariff rates, to invest $ 350 billion (A534 billion dollars).
About two weeks ago, US President Donald Trump and Lee held their first meetings in Washington.
Trump said perhaps the US could make an arrangement with South Korean workers who will train American citizens to do things like batteries and computer production.
“If you don’t have people who know the batteries in this country right now, maybe we have to help them and educate our people.” He said.
“The way you educate people, to bring people who know what they are doing, to let them stay for a while and to help.”
Lee, the rights of South Korean citizens and the economic activities of South Korean companies should not be unjustly violated during the US law enforcement procedures.
The South Korean Foreign Ministry made a separate statement to express “anxiety and regret” on the case and sent diplomats to the site.
Steven Schrank’s Chief Security Research Agent, Chief Security Research Agent, had entered into a Friday news conference, some of the detained workers had passed the US border illegally, others entered the country legally, but the duration was full or entering a visa waiver that prohibited its work.
South Korea President Chief of General Staff Kang said that South Korea will force and develop visa systems for those traveling to the US on business trips for investment projects.
