According to Seoul’s foreign ministry, Landau conveyed his deep regrets over the detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in an immigration crackdown earlier this month at an electric vehicle battery plant construction site for a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution in Bryan County, Georgia.

A total of 316 South Korean workers returned home Friday, after being held in a detention center for a week.

  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    22 hours ago

    After being detained for a full week by ICE despite valid documents these workers would be crazy to return. Employees coming to the US should demand hazard pay.

    My Canadian friends use to cross the border often. Now they won’t come at all & I don’t blame them.

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      13 hours ago

      I run install teams from Japan on occasion. I wouldn’t blame them for not wanting to return either.