South Korea says it has reached a deal with the US for the release of workers in a Georgia plant

SEOUL South Korea AP More than South Korean workers detained following a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia will be disclosed and brought home the South Korean administration released Sunday Presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik stated that South Korea and the U S had finalized negotiations on the workers release He mentioned South Korea plans to send a charter plane to bring the workers home as soon as remaining administrative attempts are completed U S immigration functionaries stated Friday they detained people the greater part of them South Korean nationals when hundreds of federal agents raided Hyundai s sprawling manufacturing site in Georgia where the Korean automaker Hyundai makes electric vehicles South Korea s Foreign Minister Cho Hyun later announced that more than South Koreans were among the detained The operation was the latest a long line of workplace raids conducted as part of the Trump administration s mass deportation agenda But the one on Thursday is especially distinct because of its large size and the fact that it targeted a manufacturing site state executives have long called Georgia s largest economic progress project Video disclosed by U S Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Saturday revealed a caravan of vehicles driving up to the site and then federal agents directing workers to line up outside Specific detainees were ordered to put their hands up against a bus as they were frisked and then shackled around their hands ankles and waist Agents focused their operation on a plant that is still under construction at which Hyundai has partnered with LG Force Resolution to produce batteries that power EVs Largest part of the people detained were taken to an immigration detention center in Folkston Georgia near the Florida state line None has been charged with any crimes yet Steven Schrank the lead Georgia agent of Homeland Shield Investigations reported during a news conference Friday adding that the study is ongoing The South Korean regime a close U S ally expressed concern and regret over the raid targeting its citizens and sent diplomats to the site Source