Authorities under the US government are being criticized by civic organizations for their arrest and detainment of South Korean immigrants during a recent raid.
In a demonstration held on Monday, South Korean civic groups gathered in front of the US Embassy in Seoul to denounce the US government over the immigration crackdown on South Korean workers at a battery plant construction site in Georgia.
The protesters, including the progressive groups Candlelight Action and the Korean University Students Progressive Union, claimed that the US is pressuring South Korean workers building factories on American soil due to illegal immigrants. They asserted that the US is acting illegally as it does not pay for the US base in Pyeongtaek or its embassy in Seoul.
The construction site raid took place on Thursday, and more than 300 South Korean workers are currently being held in a detention center in Folkston, Georgia, following the raid. The electric vehicle battery plant, a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution Ltd., is being built near Savannah, Georgia.
The groups called for the immediate release of the detainees, demanding that the United States apologise for the incident. One protester even compared the arrests to a hostage situation.
The protests were staged in response to a raid on a construction site for an electric vehicle battery plant in Georgia. However, the name of the US government body that ordered the mass arrest of South Korean workers at the battery factory in Georgia remains unspecified in the available search results.
Approximately 70 people joined the protests, according to police estimates. The groups also expressed a desire to overhaul the South Korea-US alliance.
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