South Korea replied after hundreds of employees were arrested in Hyundai's battery facility in Georgia during an immigration attack on Thursday.
“The economic activities of Korean investment companies and the rights and interests of Korean citizens may not be wrongly violated during the US criminal traps,” said the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a declaration.
“We are actively responding to this incident by sending the Consul General of the US message in Seoul and the Consulate General in Atlanta to the location and instructing the formation of a reaction team on site that focus on the local message.”
It added: “In Seoul, we also broadcast our concerns and regret through the US message in Korea and asked them to change extreme caution to ensure that the legitimate rights and interests of the Korean citizens are not violated.”
Why is it important
President Donald Trump has instructed his government to remove millions of migrants without legal status as part of what critics call critics as an aggressive deportation campaign. The White House claimed that everyone who lives illegally in the country is considered a “criminal”.
Trump's flagship policy has triggered concerns about the potential effects on the economy. The American Immigration Council projects that the mass deportation policy could avoid unique costs of $ 315 billion.
In addition, the deportation of 1 million people could lead to annual spending of up to 88 billion US dollars every year.
The job market has noticeably affected. The documented and non-documented immigrants who made up 20 percent of the US workforce at the beginning of the year had dropped to 19 percent to 19 percent.
Hundreds of workers were arrested on Thursday during an immigration attack in Hyundai's battery facility in Georgia.
The office for alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives
What to know?
The office for alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives (ATF) Atlanta said that during the operation in Hyundai's work in the Hyundai plant in Bryan County, that around 450 people were supposedly illegal in the country, illegal were illegally taken into custody.
The ATF said that it was for investigations (Homeland Security Investigations), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the US immigration and customs authority (ICE), Georgia State Patrol (GSP) and other partner agencies to carry out the company.
“Each agency has contributed a special specialist knowledge that was of crucial importance for the success of this lengthy examination,” an official from the Ministry of Homeland Salvation told Newweek.
ICE has not yet published any details about the nationalities of the people.
Soldiers of the Georgia State Patrol blocked streets that led to Hyundai's location. The Georgia Department of Public Safety confirmed CBS News, which they were sent to support the federal authorities.
According to CBS News, the operations in the EV production plant from Hyundai continued without interruption without interruption.
The Hyundai Motor Group has made considerable investments in the USA in recent years, including in Georgia, where they are with electric vehicle and battery production.
A year ago, the Hyundai Motor Group started the manufacture of EVS in its work of 7.6 billion US dollars with around 1,200 employees.
What people say
Plant spokesman Bianca Johnson told CBS News: “This did not affect that people were done to work. Production and normal office hours had already started for the day when the authorities put access.”
A civil servant of the Ministry of Homeland Salvation said Newsweek: “Ice Homeland Security Investigations, in Coordination with Our Law Enforcement Partners, Executed A Judicial Search Warrant As part of an ongoing criminal investment into allegations of unlawful employMent practice and Other serious Federal CRIMES. This Operation Underscores Our Commitment to Protecting Jobs for Georgians, Ensuring A Level Playing Field for Businesses that Comply with the Law, Safeguarding the Integrity of Our Economy, and Protecting Workers From Exploitation.
“This investigation focuses on ensuring the accountability for those who violate the law and maintains the rule of law. Complex cases such as this require strong cooperation and extensive investigations, and we thank the US office of the Ministry of Labor of the General Inspector the General Inspector, the FBI, the DEA, the customs and the Border Protection, IRS and the IRS and Georgia State State Patrol for her valuable support.
What happens next
The administration is expected to increase the enforcement operations after the passage of the one large, beautiful calculation expanded ICE financing.
Update 9/5/25, 11:49 a.m. ET: This article has been updated with a comment from the Ministry of Homeland Security.
