Source: Cato Institute
by Scott Lincicome
“Two weeks ago, U.S. immigration officials arrested almost 500 foreign nationals working at the construction site of a multibillion-dollar Georgia battery plant jointly owned by Korea’s LG and Hyundai. The raid, led by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and supposedly the largest-ever at a single location, has set off a firestorm of commentary regarding the very public arrest, detention, and expulsion of the 300-plus South Korean citizens involved — and a furious debate over whether they were working illegally at the Georgia site (and thus worthy of arrest). Now that the workers have returned home and the South Korean government has opened a human rights investigation into their treatment, it’s increasingly clear that ICE messed up badly.” (09/17/25)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/ice-raid-georgia-becomes-massive-unsurprising-us-policy-failure