SEOUL: President of South Korea Lee Jae Myung has said that ICE raid on three hundred South Korean workers in Georgia would impact his country’s investment in US.
It may be recalled that ICE had nabbed 475 employees (300 South Koreans) working illegally on visitors’ visas at Hyundai-LG battery plant Ellabell, on 5th September. Justifying the raid, ICE held that such operations were inevitable to protect the citoyens’ employment: “People on short-term or recreational visas are not authorized to work in the US.”
It is pertinent to mention here that South Korean entities, in order to contain the ogre of Trumpian Tariffs, had pledged to invest billions of dollars in next few years in USA. While Hyundai pointed out that none of the detained workers were directly engaged by the company, South Korea had assigned the job of safeguarding the rights of its citizens to a number of diplomats. The illegal workers were detained at an ICE facility in Georgia. Later they were flown back to their homeland.
Newspakistan.tv
