The Department of Homeland Secuirty said that the agents had an arrest warrant for judicial searches that claimed illegal employment practices.
Hundreds of hundreds in Hyundai are planning immigration raid in Georgia
Federal agents have arrested 450 workers, mainly South Korean citizens, in the work of Hyundai in Georgia.
On September 4, federal agents arrested hundreds of people on a extensive construction site of battery facilities in Georgia in one of the greatest immigration attacks by the Trump government.
The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Tobacco, Firing Weapons and Explosives announced agents of the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency and the Georgia State Patrol at the Operation in the Hyundai battery plant in the Hyunda district of Bryan southwest of Savannah. The agents covered around 450 people who were suspected of being illegal in the country, ATF said in an X post.
In an e -mail, dhs said that the investigation for immigration and enforcement of the home protection authority of immigration and enforcement of Homeland Security carried out a judicial search order for an ongoing criminal investigation due to presumed illegal employment practices and other federal crimes.
The agency has not clarified how many agents took part in the operation, and not the charges that those had imprisoned.
“We arrested many people without papers,” said Steven Schrank, special representative who was responsible for the investigation by Homeland Security, Atlanta, at a press conference that was deleted by local news programs. “We have encountered many lawful employees who work here, citizens of the United States and lawful constant residents, and of course they are released.”
Cabinet said that the operation has no injuries or “violence”. He said that further details about the attack will be published later.
The system is the HL GA battery company, a battery system that was created jointly by LG Energy Solution and Hyundai Motor Group. It is under construction next to the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America at the location, which extends by almost 3,000 acres.
The new work of Hyundai of 7.6 billion US dollars in a rural area near Savannah has promised to change the local economy and workforce. It is estimated that the facility will create around 8,500 jobs by 2030.
Hyundai's spokesman, Bianca Johnson, said in an e -mail that the metaplant or its production had no influence.
The law enforcement measures took place on the construction site of the HL GA battery system, she said. “We work with the law enforcement authorities and are obliged to keep all work and immigration regulations.”
Mary Beth Kennedy, spokeswoman for the HL GA battery company, said in a statement that the company “fully works with the responsible authorities in terms of activities at our construction site”.
“To support your work, we have the construction, said Kennedy.” We currently have no further details. “
The Savannah Morning News, part of the USA Today Network, was asked to leave the facility when State Troopers blocked a helicopter that hovered over the factory in the middle of the robbery, while state patrol cars and undetected black vehicles entered the location. Images posted by ATF showed that men and women were accompanied by the website in zipper bonds.
The Georgia State Patrol Capt. Captain Crystal Zion said that the department supported federal officials in the “service of a criminal search order in an operation in the Hyundai metaplant”. Zion shared no additional information and directed inquiries about the investigation for home protection.
The raid in Georgia is one of the largest during the second term of President Donald Trump, since he promises a comprehensive approach to immigration throughout the country by maintaining several federal authorities and even the support of the local and state law enforcement authorities. Raids have taken place all over the country on farms and construction sites as well as restaurants and car washes.
In August 2019, 680 people arrested in seven Mississippi Hühnchen processing plants in the first term of office, in which civil servants described the greatest decline in immigration in a decade at that time.
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