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Feds Eye More Cities, Hyundai Plant Raid, Influential Pastor

Up First from NPR

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4.552.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration is eying more cities even as it builds up a National Guard presence near Chicago and fights a lawsuit by Los Angeles. Federal immigration authorities arrested nearly 500 workers they said were in the U.S. illegally at a South Korean battery maker's Georgia construction site. An Idaho pastor is gaining influence among national Republicans and expanding his presence in Washington, D.C.

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0:00.0

South Korea wants answers after an immigration raid here in the U.S.

0:06.6

The raid netted hundreds of workers at a site of a plant that Hyundai and a battery maker are building in Georgia.

0:12.8

I'm Scott Simon.

0:13.8

And I'm Ayesha Roscoe. It's up first from NPR News.

0:19.6

The raid near Savannah comes as the administration says it wants to send more National Guard to

0:25.2

more cities, citing public safety.

0:27.8

But NPR has learned that ICE wants Pentagon support for operations in one of those target

0:32.5

cities.

0:33.1

We have the latest from Chicago as well as on that Savannah raid.

0:36.7

And here in D.C., growing influence

0:39.2

for a pastor from rural Idaho, why Doug Wilson has the administration's ear. So stay with us.

0:46.1

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1:17.7

First to Chicago, President Trump is ramping up his threats to send the National Guard there, even after a federal judge said his use of troops in Los Angeles back in June was

1:23.2

illegal. Chicago was just one of several major cities alongside the likes of Baltimore and New Orleans,

1:29.1

to which Trump says he would deploy the Guard for Public Safety, despite data showing

1:33.7

that crime is down in those cities.

1:35.7

NPR's Kat Lonsdorf is in Chicago and joins us now.

1:39.4

Kat, thanks for being with us.

1:40.8

Hey, good morning.

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