{"id":163494,"date":"2025-09-07T12:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/workers-detained-in-hyundai-plant-raid-to-be-freed-and-flown-home-south-korea-says-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:24:07","slug":"workers-detained-in-hyundai-plant-raid-to-be-freed-and-flown-home-south-korea-says-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/workers-detained-in-hyundai-plant-raid-to-be-freed-and-flown-home-south-korea-says-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home, South Korea says &#8211; NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Profile<br \/>Sections<br \/>Local<br \/>tv<br \/>Featured<br \/>More From NBC<br \/>Follow NBC News<br \/> news Alerts<br \/>There are no new alerts at this time<br \/>South Korean workers detained during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/ice-hyundai-plant-georgia-enforcement-action-rcna229148\" target=\"_blank\">massive immigration raid on a Hyundai facility <\/a>in Georgia will be returned to South Korea on a chartered flight, President Lee Jae Myung&#8217;s office said Sunday.<br \/>Federal and immigration agents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/hundreds-south-korean-nationals-detained-largest-single-site-immigrati-rcna229312\" target=\"_blank\">arrested 475 people on Thursday \u2014 mostly South Korean nationals <\/a>\u2014 while executing a judicial search warrant as part of a criminal investigation into alleged unlawful employment at the facility.<br \/>\u201cNegotiations for the release of the detained workers have been concluded,&#8221; a presidential spokesperson announced Sunday. \u201cOnce the procedures are complete, the chartered plane will depart to bring our citizens.\u201d<br \/>U.S. officials were not immediately available for comment.<br \/>The incident strained ties with South Korea, the world\u2019s 10th-largest economy and a key U.S. ally in east Asia.<br \/>The raid, part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/chicago-boston-preparing-immigration-trump-raids-rcna228505\" target=\"_blank\">Trump administration\u2019s escalating crackdown on immigrants<\/a>, was the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of the Department of Homeland Security.<br \/>A sea of agents from HSI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies showed up Thursday to the site in the town of Ellabell where Hyundai and LG Energy Solution are jointly building a battery plant next to their manufacturing facility for electric vehicles.<br \/>Freddie Clayton is a freelance journalist based in London.\u00a0<br \/>Stella Kim is an NBC News freelance producer based in Seoul.<br \/>&copy;&nbsp;2025 NBCUniversal Media, LLC<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikwFBVV95cUxOdzJKSHl2cmJrdmZlRnVoZGVNM3lmTkZ1THZnYXM1ejNXS2VRU2k3cFlJaDYzR0Z6a3BqMUJCeWxCM1lTMjVxWlpKckN4Y3pvVFdpeWxtWExxZjVXdjRWcEl2WEUyNlJnNUhUTkJDUTFFcWVuTTZmVWVYXzdRRjViZm1TMENwNHJxTVo3bXVPSUNQajTSAVZBVV95cUxNajFQajF4Mi1HS1dka3ZjelNQSDU3aGtUY0hzeWdjYk0wbWRIVG5XelozdFZMeFpCY0h6bkN1aGtWblROZjEyWUFldmJNRzU1ekh3VXIwZw?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ProfileSectionsLocaltvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC News news AlertsThere are no new alerts at this timeSouth Korean workers detained during a massive immigration raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia will be returned to South Korea on a chartered flight, President Lee Jae Myung&#8217;s office said Sunday.Federal and immigration agents arrested 475 people on Thursday \u2014 mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}