South Korea and the United States volition sermon establishing a caller visa class for Koreans, Seoul's overseas curate was quoted arsenic saying.
Kim Hong-ji | Reuters
South Korea and the United States volition discuss establishing a new visa category for Koreans, Seoul's overseas curate was quoted arsenic saying, aft a U.S. migration raid saw 475 workers rounded up astatine a Hyundai Motor site.
Foreign Minister Cho Hyun besides said aft gathering U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio connected Wednesday that helium had assurances that the South Koreans who are owed to beryllium released volition not look disadvantages if they effort to re-enter the United States, the Yonhap News Agency reported.
Cho had flown to Washington to resoluteness what has go a diplomatic quagmire aft astir 300 South Koreans moving astatine the tract of an electrical conveyance artillery works successful Georgia were detained by U.S. migration authorities past week.
A chartered level carrying the workers will depart the United States connected Thursday and the radical volition not beryllium handcuffed erstwhile they are transferred from the detention halfway to the airport, Cho was besides quoted arsenic saying by Yonhap.
U.S. migration authorities routinely handcuff and shackle immigrants erstwhile they are enactment connected deportation flights.
There was nary contiguous remark from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or the State Department.
Cho told Rubio that Koreans were "hurt and shocked" by the apprehension of workers "who came to the U.S. to transportation exertion and know-how to lend to the Trump administration's efforts to revive the U.S. manufacturing industry," South Korea's overseas ministry said earlier.
Korean businesses person complained astir strict U.S. limits on visas for skilled foreign workers, which they accidental marque it hard for them to oversee operation of factories oregon to bid local workers.
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