Hyundai ICE raid highlights focus on worksites employing migrants
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🗓️ 8 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that sweeping immigration raids in California can continue |
| 0:05.5 | lifting a lower court ruling that barred arrests without suspicion by immigration and customs enforcement. |
| 0:12.2 | It follows a raid on Friday at a car manufacturing plant in Georgia that led to nearly 500 arrests. |
| 0:18.3 | That raid, by ICE at a Hyundai facility in in Georgia marked the largest single-site raid this |
| 0:24.0 | country has ever seen. |
| 0:25.7 | Let's start there with Jasmine Garz of NPR. |
| 0:28.6 | Great to see you. |
| 0:29.6 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:30.6 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:31.6 | So let's start with that Georgia raid. |
| 0:32.6 | What do we know about who was taken into custody in that raid and what their legal status is? |
| 0:37.4 | Absolutely. So we know it is close to 500 workers. who was taken into custody in that raid and what their legal status is. |
| 0:44.0 | Absolutely. So we know it is close to 500 workers. Most of them, South Korean, |
| 0:51.8 | DHS officials have said that it's a mixed bag when it comes to their status. Some people cross the border illegally. Other people overstayed |
| 0:55.4 | visas. Other people have visas that didn't allow them to work legally in the U.S. And we know |
| 1:02.9 | that there have been discussions with the South Korean government for about 300 of the workers |
| 1:08.5 | to be chartered back. We did ask DHS about the raid. They said in a statement to us that they're looking into allegations of what they said are unlawful employment practices. |
| 1:17.6 | They also said in part the operation underscores our commitment to protecting jobs for Georgians, |
| 1:22.6 | ensuring a level playing field with for businesses that comply with the law, safeguarding the integrity |
| 1:27.5 | of our economy, and protecting workers from exploitation. So Jasmine, say a little bit more |
| 1:32.3 | about what laws specifically they're saying were broken here. Absolutely. I mean, they're saying |
| 1:37.4 | that this is about working without legal papers, without authorization to work. And what I think |
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