Reference News Network, September 8 report: According to the website of Singapore's "The Straits Times" on September 8, after U.S. law enforcement agencies conducted large-scale raids and seized hundreds of undocumented employees, including South Korean citizens, in Georgia, a senior White House official said that the Trump administration plans to target more business facilities and intensify enforcement against illegal immigrants.
According to the report, the White House border affairs chief, known as the "border czar" of the United States, Homan, said on CNN's "State of the Union" program on September 7 that the government will further focus on workplaces.
Homan said, "We will conduct more workplace enforcement actions. No one hires illegal immigrants out of goodwill. They hire illegal immigrants because these people are willing to do harder work and accept lower wages, which undermines the competitiveness of companies that employ American citizens."
On September 4, law enforcement agencies such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Homeland Security Investigations conducted a surprise enforcement action at a construction site in Georgia and related contractors, arresting 475 employees without legal status. This factory is an electric vehicle battery plant jointly established by the Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution.
The South Korean foreign ministry verified that over 300 South Korean citizens among the employees of LG Energy Solution and its partner companies were detained during this raid, while no employees of Hyundai Motor were arrested. The South Korean government quickly took response measures, including repatriating the detained individuals, completing consultations with the U.S. side, and promising to improve the visa system for those traveling to the U.S., to prevent similar incidents from happening again.
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) analysis said that this surprise enforcement might trigger potential contradictions between the Trump administration's two priority policies of developing domestic manufacturing and cracking down on illegal immigration. Georgia Governor Kemp is seeking to make the state the "electric vehicle capital" of the United States.
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