Workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home, South Korea says
The South Korean workers held during a huge immigration raid in an installation of Hyundai in Georgia will be returned to South Korea on an chartered flight, the office of President Lee Jae Myung said on Sunday.
Federal and immigration agents arrested 475 people Thursday – mainly South Korean nationals – while executing a mandate of judicial search within the framework of a criminal investigation into an illegal employment alleged in the establishment.
“Negotiations for the release of detained workers have been concluded,” a presidential spokesman said on Sunday. “Once the procedures are completed, the chartered plane will leave to bring our citizens.”
US officials were not immediately available to comment.
The incident has set out to links with South Korea, the 10th world economy and a key American ally in East Asia.
The raid, which is part of the climbing of the Trump administration against the repression against immigrants, was the largest operation to apply a single site in the history of the Department of Internal Security.
A sea of HSI agents, the application of immigration and customs forces and other federal agencies presented themselves on Thursday on the site of the city of Ellabell where Hyundai and LG Energy solution are jointly build a battery plant next to their manufacturing plant for electric vehicles.
