South Korea objects as US immigration raids Hyundai plant

Seoul demands extortion for nationals, investors arsenic Trump’s migration crackdown sees hundreds detained successful ICE raid.

South Korea has complained aft United States migration officials detained hundreds of workers during a raid connected a Hyundai-LG artillery works being built successful the authorities of Georgia.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs successful Seoul connected Friday demanded the rights of its investors and citizens beryllium respected pursuing the raid the erstwhile day, which forced operation of the mill to beryllium suspended.

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The occurrence highlights the disruptive effect President Donald Trump’s migration crackdown is having connected his efforts to pull overseas investment. The Hyundai-LG works is portion of the biggest overseas concern successful the authorities of Georgia.

“The concern activities of our investors and the rights of our nationals indispensable not beryllium unjustly infringed successful the process of US instrumentality enforcement,” South Korea’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Lee Jaewoong, said successful a statement.

Since Trump returned to powerfulness successful January, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) bureau has been bolstered by grounds backing and caller latitude to behaviour raids.

The president has said helium wants to deport “the worst of the worst” criminals. But ICE figures amusement a emergence successful the detainment of non-criminals.

Lee did not specify precisely however galore South Koreans were detained, calling the fig “large,” but media reports suggested that 300 oregon much had been taken into custody.

The Atlanta bureau of the US Justice Department bureau ATF said successful a station connected X that up to 450 radical successful full had been detained.

The Korea Economic Daily reported that arsenic galore arsenic 560 workers astatine the Hyundai Motor installation and LG Energy Solution (LGES) had been detained.

Of that number, immoderate 300 are South Korean nationals, according to the Reuters and AFP quality agencies, citing South Korean media and unnamed sources.

A South Korean authorities authoritative told Reuters that the detainees were being held astatine an ICE detention facility.

Lee said the ministry is taking progressive measures to code the case, dispatching diplomats from its embassy successful Washington and consulate successful Atlanta to the site, and readying to signifier an on-site effect squad centred connected the section mission.

In July, Seoul pledged $350bn successful US concern to easiness tariff threats from Trump, who was elected past twelvemonth connected a committedness to pb the largest migrant deportation programme successful US history.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies