More than 300 South Korean workers in a Hyundai LG battery system in Georgia were arrested by the US immigration and customs authority.
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.
Washington – Hundreds of South Korean workers who are detained in a Hyundai battery system in Georgia during a massive immigration attack will soon return home, said officials from President Lee Jae Myung's office.
US immigration officers arrested around 475 people on September 4, including more than 300 Koreans, in a battery system of 30 miles northwest of Savannah. Federal civil servants said that the workers had violated a number of immigration laws, including some who illegally exceeded the US border, and others in the country in tourist visa that they do not allow them.
The South Korean chief of staff Kang Hun-Sik said on September 7 that negotiations with the United States were completed, and the workers would fly home after additional administrative procedures. The workers will fly to South Korea in a chartered plane, said Hun-Sik.
The White House did not immediately answer a request for comments.
The attack on the work of the HL-GA Battery Company was the largest operational operations of the workplace in the history of the home protection authority, said civil servant. Video published by US immigration and customs authorities showed that tied workers were accompanied on buses.
During a press conference of September 5, federal officials said that the operation was primarily aimed at criminal violations of labor laws and not to immigration measures.
In the days after the raid, the South Korean president swore home to bring the workers home and warned that the rights of the country's rights should not be “excessively injured”.
Democratic congress members from Georgia and the Asian Pacific Caucus of the Congress said that they were “deeply alerted” in a statement of September 6th.
“Instead of targeting violent criminal, the Trump government runs immigrants at work and in color communities to meet their mass deportation rates,” wrote the group of 20 legislators.
During a appearance on September 7th in CNNS “State of the Union” told the border of the White House, Tom Homan, the Trump administration plans to carry out further raids such as those at the Georgia plant.
The South Korean officials said they will try to improve the visa system for employees who travel to the USA to prevent future incidents.
This is a developing message.
Contribution: Reuters; Trevor Hughes, USA Today
