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475 folks detained throughout immigration raid on Hyundai manufacturing facility in Georgia

By Editorial Board Published September 5, 2025 4 Min Read
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475 folks detained throughout immigration raid on Hyundai manufacturing facility in Georgia

Officers detained 475 folks throughout an immigration raid on a Hyundai manufacturing facility for electrical automobiles in Georgia.

The vast majority of these detained on the 3,000-acre website west of Savannah are from South Korea, in line with Steven Schrank, particular agent in cost at Homeland Safety Investigations.

Mr Schrank mentioned the raid was the “largest single-site enforcement operation” within the historical past of the company and adopted an investigation of a number of months, which concerned leads from group members and former employees.

The spokesman for the South Korean overseas ministry, Lee Jaewoong, mentioned there was a “large” variety of South Koreans amongst these detained within the raid, however didn’t present an actual quantity.

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A ‘massive’ variety of these detained have been from South Korea

He mentioned the detained employees have been a part of a “network of subcontractors” and that the staff labored for a number of completely different firms on the Georgia website.

Mr Lee mentioned South Korea’s overseas ministry is dispatching diplomats from its embassy in Washington and consulate in Atlanta to the positioning, and plans to kind an on-site response group centred on the native mission.

“The business activities of our investors and the rights of our nationals must not be unjustly infringed in the process of US law enforcement,” Mr Lee added.

The Division of Homeland Safety mentioned in an announcement that brokers executed a search warrant “as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations of unlawful employment practices and other serious federal crimes”.

The manufacturing website, which employs about 1,200 folks, has been hailed as the biggest financial growth venture within the state’s historical past by Governor Brian Kemp and different officers.

The Hyundai Motor Group plant in Georgia. File pic: AP Photo/Mike Stewart

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The Hyundai Motor Group plant in Georgia. File pic: AP Picture/Mike Stewart

Hyundai Motor Group, the most important automaker in South Korea, began manufacturing electrical automobiles on the $7.6bn (£7.4bn) website a yr in the past and partnered with LG Vitality Resolution to construct an adjoining battery plant, which is about to open in 2026.

ICE spokesman Lindsay Williams confirmed the raid and mentioned brokers have been centered on the development website for the battery plant.

LG mentioned in an announcement that it was “closely monitoring the situation and gathered all relevant details”. The agency mentioned it could not instantly verify what number of of its workers or Hyundai employees had been detained.

“Our top priority is always ensuring the safety and well-being of our employees and partners. We will fully cooperate with the relevant authorities,” LG mentioned.

Hyundai and LG’s battery three way partnership, HL-GA Battery Firm, mentioned in an announcement that it is “cooperating fully with the appropriate authorities” and paused building of the battery website to help the investigation.

Operations at Hyundai’s electrical automobile manufacturing plant weren’t interrupted, plant spokesperson Biance Johnson mentioned.

The raid is the most recent in a collection of sweeping ICE operations as a part of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, which noticed immigration officers raid farms, building websites, eating places and auto restore retailers.

The US labour drive misplaced greater than 1.2 million immigrants from January by July, which incorporates authorized and unlawful immigrants, in line with the Pew Analysis Centre, citing preliminary census knowledge.

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