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Hyundai-LG plant raid reveals fresh risks for foreign investments in the US
The largest US immigration action in recent history has sowed fresh doubts about America’s reliability as an investment destination.
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US immigration agents detained 475 workers, including about 300 South Koreans, at a Hyundai-LG battery plant under construction in the state of Georgia on Sept 4.
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Cory Alpert
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The images out of the US this week were harrowing: armoured vehicles, drones and helicopters circling a Hyundai plant as hundreds of subcontractors, many of them South Korean technicians, were detained in the sweltering late-summer heat of Georgia.
On Sept 4, immigration agents detained 475 workers,
