Savannah, Ga. – During an immigration attack in a spacious place in Georgia, where the South Korean automotive company Hyundai produces electric vehicles, according to the home protection officer, an immigration attack in Georgia was arrested.
Steven Schrank, responsible special representative and investigation for home protection, said during a news assignment on Friday that the majority of the detained people came from South Korea.
“This operation underlines our commitment to jobs for Georgians and Americans,” said Schrank. “This was indeed the largest operations in the individual locations in the history of the home protection examinations.”
The investigation has been taking for several months, with the authorities receiving demonstrations by parishioners and former workers, he said.
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The spokesman for the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lee Jawoong, described the number of imprisoned South Koreans as “large”, although he did not deliver precise number.
He said that the detained employees were part of a “network of subcontractors” and that the employees worked for a large number of different companies on the site.
The RAID on Thursday aimed at one of the largest and top -class production facilities in Georgia, which Governor Brian Kemp and other officials advertised as the largest economic development project in the history of the state. The Hyundai Motor Group, the largest car manufacturer in South Korea, began a year ago with the production of EVS in the complex of 7.6 billion US dollars, which employs around 1,200 people, and has teamed up with LG Energy Solution to build an adjacent battery system next year.
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In an explanation of The Associated Press, LG said that it “carefully monitors the situation and collects all relevant details”. It said it could not immediately confirm how many of his employees or Hyundai workers had been imprisoned.
“Our top priority is always to ensure the security and well -being of our employees and partners. We will work fully with the responsible authorities,” said the company.
The South Korean office of Hyundai did not immediately answer inquiries about comments.
ICE spokesman Lindsay Williams confirmed that the federal authorities had carried out a asset operation at the 3,000 hectare location west of Savannah, GA.
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In a television declaration, Lee said that the ministry took active measures to combat the case to send diplomats from its embassy in Washington and Consulate in Atlanta to the location and plans to form a reaction team concentrated on the local mission.
“The business activities of our investors and the rights of our nationals must not be wrongly violated in the process of persecution,” said Lee.
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said that agents carried out a search order as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into illegal employment practices and other serious federal crimes.
The government of President Donald Trump has carried out comprehensive ice operations as part of a mass design agenda. Immigration officers have searched farms, construction sites, restaurants and car repair shops.
The Pew Research Center, citing the data in front of the preliminary census office, states that the US workers lost more than 1.2 million immigrants from January to July. This includes people who are illegal in the country, as well as legal residents.
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The HL-GA Battery Company from Hyundai and LG from LG said in a statement that it “fully worked with the responsible authorities” and the construction of the battery site to support their work.
The company in Hyundais EV production facility was not interrupted, said the plants spokesman, Bianca Johnson.
The work in Georgia was also a test place for robots. Boston Dynamics in Hyundai said at the beginning of this year that the use of its dog-like spot robot would begin to check the outer quality in the welding business of the facility. The robotics company based in Massachusetts also planned to set its humanoid robot atlas there in the future.
By Kim Tong-Hyung and Russ Bynum, the Associated Press
Bynum reported by Savannah, Ga. Jeff Martin from Marietta, GA.
