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Hi, this is Holly from Albany, Oregon. I'm sitting backstage at a community theater's production of Disney's Tarzan, hoping we have no cost of emergencies I need to fix. This show was recorded at 1.38 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.

By the time you hear this, things may have changed, but Jane and Tarzan will still be swinging through the jungle.

Enjoy the show.

I hope you enjoy it. I will say the last place you will ever find me is at a community theater. Really? Yeah. I don't like theater that much. And community theater is just like, it's not for me. Dang. Well, I'll replace you there in the audience. Hey there. It's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover politics. I'm Stephen Powell. I also cover politics. And I'm Domenico

Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. And today on the show, we're taking a look at how

President Trump's immigration enforcement push is at odds with his overall goal to boost American

manufacturing. Stephen, I want to start with a recent immigration rate at a Hyundai factory near

Savannah, Georgia. Can you explain what happened there?

So, Ashley, there is a massive electric vehicle factory compound being built just outside of Savannah

on Georgia's coast. There is an electric vehicle plant. There is a battery plant that is under

construction. And last week, hundreds of law enforcement agents from a variety of agencies, ranging from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to the Georgia State Patrol to the Department of Homeland Security, went to this construction site and conducted an immigration rate.

They said it was the largest single site

operation in Homeland Security Investigations history. There were more than 470 people detained,

and the government says they were all there in the United States illegally. There were people there

from a lot of different countries,

but according to the government, the majority of them were South Korean nationals, more than

300, that were there to help with this South Korean company that's been investing and building

a factory in Georgia. And it is just a massive site, a massive immigration enforcement operation

and a massive question mark hanging over the future of this project and other investments

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