GEORGIA: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has nabbed 475 employees (300 South Koreans) working illegally on visitors’ visas at Hyundai-LG battery plant Ellabell, here on Friday (5th Sept, 2025).
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, have 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 have assigned the job of safeguarding the rights of its citizens to a number of diplomats. The illegal workers were being detained at an ICE facility here, until the agency decides where to lodge them once moved from the state of Georgia.
Newspakistan.tv
