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Brief of diving:
- In one of the Maximum Immigration Incursions of President Donald Trump’s second term, hundreds of federal agents arrested 475 workers At a construction place in Georgia, the Department of Justice announced on September 5.
- Meanwhile, the Border Zar of the White House, Tom Homan Increases raids on US jobs.
- The installation Elbell, Georgia, is the future home of a installation of electric vehicle batteries of $ 4.3 billion co -owner of Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution. The vast majority of The arrested workers were south -CoreansReported the New York Times.
Divide vision:
The effort to find and deport immigrants present in the United States illegally has been a priority for the Trump administration. Once immigration and customs execution could mobilize, the Began the raids on the workplace.
It is not a secret construction that uses many workers born abroad, although it is difficult to know how many for certain. Some estimates place the total undocumented construction workers fee About 23%.
As a result, the industry is Feel the impact of these ice crews. The application of immigration has affected approximately one of the three construction companies, according to a survey published on August 28 by the General Associated Contractors of America and the National Center for Construction Education and Research.
And contractors are desperate by work; About nine out of ten companies report with openings for craft construction workers. The lack of skilled labor has been the largest cause of the project delays, according to the AGC survey.
Hyundai and LG invested $ 4.3 billion to set the HL-GA battery plant Start production of EV battery At the beginning of 2026, on the project website. The two proprietary companies are headquartered in South Korea.
No Hyundai employee was arrestedThe company said in a statement and 47 LG employees were detained, according to the New York Times. Most of those arrested were employed by subcontractors.
In his statement, Hyundai said he had “zero tolerance” for those who do not follow the law and wait for the same of the project members.
“We are reviewing our processes to ensure that all parties working on our projects maintain the same high standards of legal compliance as we require. This includes a thorough review of labor practices by contractors and subcontractors,” says the statement.
LG did not respond to the Request for Comments on Dive construction at the time of publication.
Negotiations to return workers to South Korea Moved quickly, Reuters reported. Three -there are detained workers will be processed, released and returned through a chartered aircraft, said the country’s presidential office on Sunday.
Megaproject is an example of promoting investments by foreign companies in the United States soil. But Homan promised a similar application action.
“No one hires an illegal alien for the goodness of his heart,” Homan said about the CNN union state. “They hire them because they can work harder them, pay them less, emphasize the competition that hires citizen employees in the United States. They have wages.”
On Sunday, Trump went to his social media platform, Truth Social, to call Foreign companies to continue planning projects In the United States, but to do it within the law.
“Your investments are welcome and we encourage you to legally bring your very smart people, with great technical talent, to build world class products, and we will make it possible and legally possible to make it,” Trump wrote. “What we ask in return is that you hire and form North -Americans.”
