Breaking News: U.S. to Send Koreans Home After Georgia ICE Operation

On Friday, we reported on the ICE raid on the construction site in Georgia. This is the site of a future electric-vehicle battery plant, intended to serve the nearby Hyundai auto plant – Hyundai being a Korean company. Roughly 475 illegal aliens were detained.

Turns out (big surprise) that a large number of these illegal aliens were Koreans. Now, the United States has made a deal to release the Korean nationals detained in the raid, but they aren’t going to just set them loose; that’s something the Biden administration may have done, but not today. The South Korean government has agreed to send a charter jet to take their people back to South Korea.

The South Korean government has reached a deal with the U.S. to secure the release of hundreds of migrant workers detained at a Hyundai automobile factory in Georgia.

Homeland Security Investigations said 475 people who were in the country illegally, primarily from South Korea, were arrested as part of the operation at the under-construction battery plant. Hyundai owns the plant, but claimed none of the workers were directly employed by the company.

President Lee Jae Myung’s office says the country will send a charter plane to bring the workers back to South Korea in the coming days.

South Korea’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement last week to express “concern and regret” over the raid.

To the South Korean Foreign Ministry, the American people may well express “concern and regret” over so many of your countrymen being in our nation illegally. Some of them, it turns out, came in under now-expired visas, while others just plain snuck in.

HSI Georgia chief Steven Schrank said some of the detained workers had illegally crossed the U.S. border, while others had entered the country legally but had expired visas or had entered on a visa waiver that prohibited them from working.

HSI said some of the workers arrested were employed by subcontractors on the construction site, which has since been paused. Fox News Digital reported that ICE and other law enforcement agencies were part of the operation.

None of the illegals appear to have been directly employed by Hyundai, according to Hyundai.