Feds Raid HYUNDAI Auto Plant ... Arrest Hundreds of Illegals

[Melensdad]

Roughly 450 total arrests at the facility.

South Korea ordered the Korean embassy in the US to send people to the facility to ensure that Korean citizens are not mistreated or unlawfully detained.

The plant is one of the largest foreign auto plants in Georgia and a major foreign investment in the state.

Full story at the link, but said to have been an investigation in multiple illegal labor activities.

Feds raid Hyundai EV plant in Georgia, arrest 450 illegal immigrants​

More than 30 South Koreans were detained during the raid​

Law enforcement agencies raided a Hyundai electric vehicle plant in Georgia, and arrested about 450 illegal immigrants.​

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The agencies, which included the FBI, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, made the arrests on Thursday.​

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"Today, @ATFAtlanta joined HSI, FBI, DEA, ICE, GSP and other agencies in a major immigration enforcement operation at the Hyundai mega site battery plant in Bryan County, GA, leading to the apprehension of ~450 unlawful aliens, emphasizing our commitment to community safety," ATF Atlanta posted on X on Thursday.​

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The plant began manufacturing EVs last year, and employs around 1,200 workers, The Hill reported.​

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“The economic activities of our companies investing in the U.S. and the rights and interests of our nationals must not be unfairly violated,” South Korea’s foreign ministry spokesperson Lee Jae-woong said, according to Yonhap news agency.​

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“We conveyed our concern and regret through the U.S. Embassy in Seoul today,” Lee added.​

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More than 30 South Koreans were detained during the raid.​

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South Korea sent embassy and consular officers from Washington, D.C., and Atlanta to the plant, according to the foreign ministry. ​

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Steven Schrank, the special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Georgia, said that alleged unlawful practices were taking place at the plant . . .​

 

[waybomb]

This is great news. Keep rounding up and deporting every last illegal.

 

[FrancSevin]

This is great news. Keep rounding up and deporting every last illegal.

And, also nail those who knowingly employed them.

 

[waybomb]

I have not heard of a single employer being fined or arrested for hiring illegals. Not one.

 

[Melensdad]

According to Breitbart News, this is a common practice at these mega plants owned by foreign companies. They report 300 Koreans were detained and none of them work for Hyundai directly, but they work as contractors pushed to employment agencies. So its a scam to evade hiring Americans.

Reports: ICE Detains 300 Korean Migrants at Georgia Construction Site

ICE agents detained 450 migrants at a construction site in Georgia, including hundreds of Koreans who likely misused B-1 tourist visas.

www.breitbart.com

. . . Hyundai “is a repeat offender,” Jay Palmer, an immigration expert who works with immigration lawyers, told Breitbart News. Like other companies, including Mercedes, Kia, and Tesla, Hyundai executives use staffing companies to legally shield themselves as they fly airport migrants to job sites, he said.​

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“They push the people [job applicants] to staffing agencies, and then they hire them from staffing agencies, and then think they’re shielded by the law because they have a master service agreement that states [immigration status] is not their responsibility. This is happening in every industry, especially in meat processing plants …It’s just egregious,” Palmer explained.​

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The airport migrants are just basic economics for the CEOs, he said. “Why hire an American worker that might be unionized and you have to pay them $20, $25, $30 an hour, when you can hire a foreign worker and pay them $5, $6, $7, $8 an hour, and you don’t have to pay insurance on them?”​

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The corporate outsourcing strategy clashes with President Donald Trump’s push to hire blue-collar Americans for skilled trades, Palmer said. “There are American youth who are being cheated out of jobs and careers,” he said. Still, the Georgia raid will cost the company a lot of money via construction delays, he added. . . .​

 

[Melensdad]