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About 450 Illegal immigration A large immigration enforcement attack occurred Thursday at a Hyundai Electric Vehicle Battery Factory in Georgia, the Atlanta Federal Alcohol Agency, a Hyundai Electric Vehicle Battery Factory announced by tobacco, guns and explosives.
Several other agencies, including U.S. immigration and customs enforcement and homeland security investigations, participated in the raid at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions Battery Factory construction site, about 20 miles outside Savannah.
The raid is considered the largest such action in years for manufacturing sites in the United States and has carried out major attacks in other workplaces In recent months Under the leadership of the Trump administration.
The facility is a $4.3 billion to $7.6 billion Hyundai joint venture, which plans to supply batteries to the Savannah EV plant near Hyundai and become the largest single industrial investment in Georgia’s history.
Workers were accompanied by federal agents after an immigration raid at a construction site of the Modern Battery Factory in Georgia. (ATL)
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Construction at the site, which extends 3,000 acres, has been suspended, but the adjacent EV manufacturing plant has not been interrupted.
South Korea’s foreign ministry expressed “concern and regret” about the raid and sent a counselor and embassy officials to the site.
“The economic activities of our company and our people’s rights should not be unfairly violated in the course of US law enforcement,” South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Lee Jae-woong said on Friday. Financial Times.
Georgia Hyundai Motor Group facility, part of a multi-billion-dollar electric vehicle and battery project. (Associated Press)
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Georgia Patrol Soldier The road to the modern ruins. The Georgia Department of Public Safety confirmed to the Associated Press that they were sent to assist federal authorities.
The raid comes after South Korea agreed to a $300 billion investment in the United States in part of a trade agreement reached in July.
LGE told the Financial Times that the original battery factory was scheduled to begin operations by the end of this year.
Federal agents detain workers in an immigration attack at the construction site of the modern battery factory in Ellabell, Georgia. (ATF)
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“We are working closely with the South Korean government and relevant authorities to ensure the safety of our employees and contractor employees and ensure the rapid release of detention,” the company said. Fox News Digital has been released with Hyundai and has made additional comments.
Video posted on social media on Thursday showed workers wearing yellow safety vests in a man wearing a mask and a tactical vest HSI, representing a letter from a homeland security investigation and told them: “We are homeland security. We provide search warrants for the entire website.”
“We need to stop construction immediately,” the man said. “We need all the work now to end on the website.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
