Atlanta, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Georgia could be exposed to the massive Hyundai plant near Savannah after a recent immigration, a lawyer said that a dozen people were detained.
A total of 475 people were arrested in the raid, and according to the investigation by the Ministry of Homeland Security (HIS), the prisoners are “mainly” South Korean citizens.
But Charles Kuck, who imprisoned some of the people, said his customers had a valid working visa and were engineers and contractors who contributed to installing parts of the work for which American workers do not have the specialist knowledge.
“None of these devices are made in the United States, none. This means that the experts for maintaining and installing these equipment are not US citizens,” he said. “Similar to how we produce products that are not made in other parts of the world and send the Americans there to install them, that's all that was going on.”
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Kuck said his customers and many others had B-1 working visa or in Georgia to process the electronic system for travel permits known as an ESTA, which enables approval for citizens of the participating visa reference country for 90 days or less for economy or tourism. Others at the location were illegal in the country, he said. But Kuck is still trying to find out how these Korean workers were involved in what he described as the greatest immigration surgery of their kind.
“(ICE) were clearly surprised that all of these boys were on visas and were at work without realizing that people who are on business -visa can do work,” he said.
“In fact, this was the largest operations in the history of the home protection examinations,” said Steven Schrank, director of home protection examinations in Atlanta. “This was a criminal investigation in several months, in which we developed evidence, carried out interviews, collected documents and presented this evidence to the court in order to receive an arrest warrant for judicial searches.”
Kuck said many of the Korean workers at the location would have disappeared in three months. Some of his customers should only work in the country in the country for two weeks when they have been arrested.
Kuck Fears, who repeats government officials, including President Donald Trump, is that the detention and removal of legal employees will invest a company, Georgia and the United States in general in the United States.
“How should other countries trust us to make their investments here when we pick up their people who enable the investments,” he said. “Other types of industries that invest in Georgia are wondering if we are still coming? Will we be able to get a visa? And if we get a visa, you will arrest us because we put together the plant? People are really afraid of it.”
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“We have to work out something where we experts bring in so that our people can be trained so that they can do it themselves,” said Trump on Sunday. “The way they train people leads people to know what they do and let them stay and help for a while. So I will look at it, it's a very interesting situation.”
Hyundai's work was advertised by state officials such as governor Brian Kemp as the largest economic development project in state history. It is a project of $ 12.8 billion that has paid about 10% of tax incentives supported by tax.
“In Georgia, we will always enforce the law, including all state and federal immigration laws. All companies working in the state must follow the laws of Georgia and our nation,” says a statement by a Kemp speaker. “The Ministry of Public Security has coordinated with ICE to ensure all the necessary support for this operation, the youngest in a long series of cooperation and partnership between the law enforcement agencies of the states and the implementation of the immigration of the federal government.”
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