South Korea To Bring Home Over 300 Workers Detained In Massive ICE Raid On Hyundai Plant
Seoul, South Korea (AP) – more than 300 South Korean workers are a great immigrant dominant The South Korean government will be released in a Hyundai factory in Georgia and will be brought home.
President Lee Jae Myung Chief of General Staff Kang Hoon-Sik, South Korea and the United States ‘release of workers’ negotiations, he said. 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 said they detained 475 people, most of them, most of them, South Korean citizens. Hundreds of federal agents raided Hyundai’s Korean automobile manufacturer in Georgia, where electric vehicles are expanding. Agents focusing on a facility in which Hyundai partner with LG Energy Solution Produce batteries These power houses.
Cho said more than that 300 South Korean were among the detainees.
The operation was the last of the raids of a long workplace raids carried out as part of the Trump Administration. Agenda of Out of A mass deportation. However, on Thursday, it is different due to its large size and the fact that government officials called the long -targeted site for Georgia’s largest economic development project.
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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 in US energy and to invest $ 350 billion in the US in the USA. About two weeks ago, US President Donald Trump and Lee, The first meeting in Washington.
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 Ministry of Foreign Affairs made a separate statement to express “anxiety and regret ve and sent diplomats to the site.
The video, published by the US immigration and customs conservation on Saturday, showed a car caravan to the site and the federal agents that led the workers to go out. Some prisoners were ordered to resist a bus as Frished and then chained around their hands, ankles and waist.
Most detained people were taken to an immigrant detention center in Folkston, near the Florida state line. Steven Schrank, the Chief Georgian agent of internal security investigations, added that the investigation continued at a press conference on Friday.
He said that some of the detained workers crossed the US border illegally, others entered the country legally, but their duration has expired or entered a visa waiver that prohibits their work.
South Korean President Kang said that South Korea will force and develop visa systems for those traveling to the United States during business trips for investment projects.
