South Korea says it has reached a deal with the US for the release of workers in a Georgia plant

[Dulcinea]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — More than 300 South Korean workers detained following a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia will be released and brought home, the South Korean government announced Sunday.

Presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik said that South Korea and the U.S. had finalized negotiations on the workers’ release. He said South Korea plans to send a charter plane to bring the workers home as soon as remaining administrative steps are completed.

U.S. immigration authorities said Friday they detained 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals, when hundreds of federal agents raided Hyundai’s sprawling manufacturing site in Georgia where the Korean automaker Hyundai makes electric vehicles. South Korea’s Foreign Minister Cho Hyun later said that more than 300 South Koreans were among the detained.

The operation was the latest a long line of workplace raids conducted as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. But the one on Thursday is especially distinct because of its large size and the fact that it targeted a manufacturing site state officials have long called Georgia’s largest economic development project.

https://apnews.com/article/us-south-korea-ice-raid-georgia-hyundai-ee8781d965c74a5ee18525ce87959ba4

[Lovie777]

1. How much money?....................

for the deal.............

[taxi]

2. There is a time in our lives that we make decisions based on outcome.

It may be paying a fine for a parking ticket or a late fee at the library. Maybe an overdraft charge is what it takes to change a behavior or not noticing that a cashier rang up an item twice before we become more attentive. Other times it has nothing to do with money. If a restaurant drops your reservation, phone calls go unanswered, or a friend that is always late are other reasons to change how we do things. It comes down to never again will I deal with that. It is hard to imagine how a company, an industry, or a country would not change in the same way. I guess if the goal of the current administration is to become more isolated from the rest of the world they wouldn't see this as a problem.

[tanyev]

3. "And make that check payable to D-O-N-A-L-D T-R-U-M-P."

“Thank you for your attention to this matter!”


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