Source: Niskanen Center
by Gerasimos Tsourapas
“In early September 2025, United States immigration authorities carried out the largest workplace enforcement action in the history of the Department of Homeland Security. At a Hyundai–LG electric vehicle battery plant in Savannah, Georgia, agents detained nearly 500 workers. More than 300 were South Korean nationals employed by subcontractors or on temporary business visas. Images of handcuffed workers being led to buses circulated widely, prompting Seoul to dispatch diplomats and announce a charter plane to bring its citizens home. … For Washington, the operation was presented as the routine application of immigration law. For Seoul, it was a national crisis that required emergency diplomacy.” (10/28/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/when-trumps-immigration-raids-become-foreign-policy