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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/georgia-battery-plant-hyundai-lg-ice-raid.html

I don't think it is a coincidence this massive raid happened to an plant dedicated to electrical vehicles instead of a factory that builds regular gasoline cars.

Also as expect, it seems ICE just detains people based on skin color instead of actual legal status.

Some highlights:

Executives and other employees of a major South Korean battery maker were among those swept up in an immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia on Thursday, the manufacturer, LG Energy Solution, said. A U.S. agency said that hundreds of people had been apprehended in the operation.

Federal agents took people into custody at a construction site for the electric vehicle battery plant in Ellabell, Ga., near Savannah, according to Steven Schrank, a special agent in charge of Homeland Security investigations for Georgia.

South Koreas Foreign Ministry confirmed on Friday that South Koreans were among those in custody, without detailing how many. Mr. Schrank told reporters at the plant on Thursday that some U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents had been detained and were being released.
The operation, part of President Trumps crackdown on immigration, caused diplomatic alarm in South Korea. Just over a week earlier, Mr. Trump hosted President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea at the White House, where the South Korean leader pledged to invest an additional $150 billion in the United States, including in battery manufacturing.

The lithium-ion battery plant, which predated Mr. Lees pledge, was expected to start operating next year. It is the kind of large-scale, job-creating investment that the United States has pushed for from South Korea and other nations.

South Korean Embassy and consular officials were dispatched to the site from Washington and Atlanta, Lee Jaewoong, a spokesman for South Koreas Foreign Ministry said at a news conference on Friday. He expressed concern that South Koreans had been detained.

The economic activities of our investment companies and the rights and interests of our citizens must not be unjustly violated during U.S. law enforcement proceedings, he said.