This picture of video, which is made available by US immigration and customs authorities via DVIDS, shows that the employees of the manufacturing plant are escorted in Ellabell, GA
Corey Bullard/US immigration and customs authority via AP
The South Korean government said Hyundai Furnishing in Georgia last week.
Federal and immigration agents led a massive route in the facility in Ellabell, Georgia and arrested 475 people as part of an investigation of the allegations of illegal employment practices. A South Korean spokesman told NBC News that more than 300 of the arrests were South Korean citizens.
The US authorities who had a search order said that the arrested workers were illegally worked in the country.
The South Korean President Lee Jae Jae Myungsbüro said on Sunday that the prisoners would return to South Korea on a chartered flight. When Hyundai was asked for a comment on Monday, he pointed CNBC to his Friday declaration, which says that “it is” obliged to comply with all laws and regulations in every market “.
According to Steven Schrank, the special agent responsible for the investigation in Georgia, who is responsible for the home protection examinations in Georgia, the raid on Thursday, the youngest in the recent approach to illegal immigration, was the greatest enforcement surgery of the Ministry of Homeland Security in its history.
The border of the White House, Tom Homan, told CNNS “State of the Union” on Sunday that the Trump government will continue to be focused on jobs for immigration attacks.
“We will do more jobs for jobs,” he said. “These companies that hire illegal foreigners undercut their competition that pays the US citizens' salaries.”
The work in Georgia is home to South Korean companies Hyundai and LG Energy Solution, which together build a battery system. The work of 7.6 billion US dollars in Hyundai employs more than 1,200 people. The company started building its production plant in 2022 and made electric vehicles less than two years later. The work thus became one of the greatest economic developments in the state.
LG Energy Solution said on Saturday that 47 of their employees were arrested by “equipment partner companies” together with another 250 people.
Cabinet said that the arrested workers were employed by contractors and subcontractors.
In a statement on Friday, the US lawyer Margaret Heap said that more than 400 agents took part in the raid.
“The aim of this operation is to reduce illegal employment and to prevent employers from gaining an unfair advantage by hiring non -authorized employees,” said Heap in the explanation. “Another goal is to protect non -authorized workers from exploitation.”
In an explanation of NBC News on Friday, Hyundai said that it had monitored the situation and that none of the prisoners were direct employees of the automotive company.
The South Korean government said on Friday that it “conveyed and regret” the US message and asked them to ensure that the rights of the South Korean employees were not violated.
“In the course of the US criminal prosecution authorities, the economic activities of our investment companies and the rights and interests of our nationals do not have to be wrongly violated,” said Lee Jae-Woong, spokesman for the South Korean Foreign Ministry.
In a social contribution to the truth, Trump wrote that he asks all foreign companies to invest in the United States to “please respect the immigration laws of our nation”.
“Your investments are welcome and we encourage you to legally bring your very clever people with great technical talent to build world -class products, and we will enable you to do so quickly and legally. In return, we ask that you will set and train American workers,” he wrote.
In conversation with reporters on Sunday, Trump also said that the raid had no connection to the economic relationships between the two countries and said that the United States has a “big relationship” with South Korea.
Hyundai informed the NBC News on Monday morning that the business trip to the USA is still available, with some trips to be subject to an internal review.
