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South Korean officials are calling for the return of more than 300 of its citizens who were detained last week during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at an electric vehicle battery factory in Georgia. The Department of Homeland Security said it was the largest single-site investigation in the agency’s history. In total, 475 people were arrested.
Immigration officers arrested the workers on September 4 at an under-construction battery factory, which will be part of a huge industrial manufacturing site near Savannah. The anchor of that complex is a new Hyundai electric and hybrid vehicle plant where cars started rolling off the line last year.
Investigators described the raid as the culmination of a long-running inquiry.
“This was not an immigration operation where agents went into the premises, rounded up folks, and put them on buses,” said Steven Schrank, DHS special age... Read more
