South Korea Sends Plane To U.S. To Bring Back Workers Detained In ICE Raid

Seoul, South Korea (AP) – A South Korean Charter plane left for the US on Wednesday to bring back Korean workers detained in an immigration Rent in Georgia last week.

A total of 475 workers, more than 300 South Korean, rolled On September 4, Hyundai raided the battery factory in the automobile factory. US officials published a video showing that some of them were chained with chains around their hands, ankles and Waists, which caused shock and betrayal among many people in South Korea, a US ally.

The South Korean government said it later reached an agreement with the US. release of workers.

South Korean TV images showed the Charter plane from the Korean Air, which set out at Incheon International Airport just west of Seoul, from Korean Air. South Korean Foreign Ministry said that the US officials were talking to the aircraft to allow the released workers to return home. However, South Korea said that the plane could not leave the United States on Wednesday because it expressed for an undetermined reason, which had previously been involved in the US side.

Korean workers are currently organized at a migrant detention center in Folkston in Southeast Georgia. The South Korean media said they would be released and they would move to Atlanta to buy the Charter plane.

South Korean officials, the United States and the workers in order to win “voluntary” separation with the United States, which can not be able to return to the United States for up to 10 years, he said negotiated rather than the exiles that can be limited.

Workplace raid By the US Internal Security Agency, it was the largest, because Agenda of Out of A mass deportation. Georgia battery facility, a joint venture between Hyundai and LG Energy Solution, is one of the more than 20 large industrial areas built by South Korean companies in the United States.

Many South Korean sees the Georgian raids as a national source of shame and stunned. Only 10 days ago, President of South Korea Lee Jae Myung And US President Donald Trump, First summit On August 25, he promised hundreds of billions of dollars in Washington to reach a tariff agreement in US investments in South Korea.

Experts say that South Korea will not take major retaliation steps against the US, but the Trump administration may be a source of tension between the allies because it intensifies migration raids.

US officials, some of the workers detained illegally crossed the US border, others entered the country legally, but their duration expired or entering a visa waiver that prohibits working, he said. However, South Korean experts and officials said that even though Washington is pressing on South Korea to expand industrial investments in the USA, Seoul has not taken action to provide a visa system to provide a visa system to provide a visa system for years.

South Korean companies rely on short -term visitor visas or electronic system for travel authority to start production sites, which have been largely tolerated for years and send the required workers to perform other installation tasks.

LG Energy Solution, who employed most of the detained workers, instructed South Korean employees in the United States not to report that they did not work until the next announcement of B-1 or B-2 short-term visit visas, and told Esta people to return home immediately.

During his visit to Washington, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun brought together representatives of large Koreli companies operating in the US, including Hyundai, LG and Samsung on Tuesday. Cho, Cho’s ministry, South Korean officials operating in the United States to create a separate visa quota for South Korean professionals, US officials and MPs have made active discussions about possible legislation, he said.

Trump said that this week workers were illegal illegal here .. And US experts need to work with other countries to train US citizens to do special work, such as battery and computer production.

Atlanta immigration lawyer Charles Kuc, representing four of the South Korean citizens who were detained, told Associated Press on Monday that no company in the US did not make machines used in the Georgia battery facility. Therefore, they had to come from abroad to install or repair on-site equipment-to train someone in the USA to take about three to five years to educate.

South Korean-US Military Alliance, During the Korean War of 1950-53, blood tattoos, decades and landing for decades. However, the surveys showed that the majority of South Koreans supported the alliance of the two countries, because the USA served as the backbone of 28,500 soldiers in South Korea and 50,000 people in Japan in the Asia-Pacific region.

During a Cabinet Council meeting on Tuesday, Lee said that he felt “great responsibility ve to the raid and hoped that the operations of South Korean enterprises would not be unjustly violated again. He said his government would try to improve systems to prevent the recurrence of similar events in close consultations with the United States.