US immigration agents arrest hundreds at Hyundai plant, mostly Koreans

Hundreds of workers at a Hyundai Motor car battery facility under construction in Georgia were detained in a raid by U.S. authorities on Thursday, stopping work on a plant that is one of the Korean automaker’s major investments in the U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has been escalating a crackdown on immigrants, disrupting businesses around the country, even as the White House has encouraged more inflows from foreign investors. Story by Peter O’Brien.

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