00:00The U.S. and South Korea have reached an agreement to release the roughly 300 South Koreans who were
00:05detained during a raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia last week. U.S. immigration officials
00:12described the raid as the largest operation on a single site in the history of Homeland
00:17Security's investigations team. Now, the raid had sparked an outcry in South Korea as footage
00:25had showed U.S. officials shackling and detaining the South Korean workers, and that had sparked a
00:33backlash in South Korea and flare tensions between the U.S. and South Korea. There is a bit of a dispute
00:40about what exactly happened. The plant was operated in a joint venture between Hyundai and LG Energy
00:49solution, and LG had claimed that many of the workers had proper visas, but there have been
00:55some reports that some of the workers had improper visas or visas that had expired. So in some cases,
01:02there are allegations that some of the workers had travel visas that weren't suited for work,
01:09despite the individuals at the plant being workers. Now, President Trump has broken his silence
01:16on this and has put out a true social post encouraging foreign companies to respect U.S. immigration laws
01:24going forward, and he said that the U.S. welcomes foreign companies sending their workers to the U.S.
01:30to help train Americans to perform certain jobs.
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