The Hyundai Plant Raided By Immigration Authorities

现代汽车工厂遭到移民局查抄

The Journal.

2025-09-09

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At a Hyundai electric vehicle factory complex in Georgia, agents from the Department of Homeland Security detained about 475 people, including hundreds of South Korean nationals. It was the biggest single site raid in the history of the department. WSJ’s Sharon Terlep went to the factory complex and explains how two of Trump’s key policies—cracking down on illegal immigration and rebuilding U.S. manufacturing—have unexpectedly collided. Jessica Mendoza hosts. Further Listening:  - Inside the ICE Hiring Blitz - "I'm Thinking I'm 100% Legal." Then ICE Raided His Company. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • In Georgia's countryside,

  • about a half hour drive from Savannah is a 3,000 acre facility that manufactures Hyundai cars.

  • An auto factory by any measure is a very big place.

  • And I would say this facility dwarfs even a very big auto plant

  • because it's almost like a city within a city.

  • There's many buildings.

  • You can drive around it.

  • It's a sprawling complex.

  • Last week, that Georgia complex was targeted by the Department of Homeland Security.

  • DHS agents lining up workers at a Hyundai plant under construction near Savannah, Georgia.

  • Thursday's raid was carried out by multiple state and federal law enforcement agencies,

  • including ICE, the FBI, and the Georgia State Patrol.

  • Federal agents arrested nearly 500 people during an immigration raid in Georgia earlier this week.

  • The sweep was the largest single-site workplace raid in the U.S.

  • And it highlighted a clash between two of the Trump administration's priorities.

  • bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. and cracking down on illegal immigration.

  • Our colleague Sharon Turlup covers the auto industry.

  • Foreign-based automakers that sell vehicles in the U.S.

  • since the Trump administration have come in have taken great strides to say,

  • you know, we employ Americans.