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Over 300 South Korean technicians caught up in the 2025 Hyundai-LG raid in Georgia have begun filing formal claims against nine federal agencies, the required first step before any lawsuit.
- The claims lean on one striking detail: the search warrant used to enter the plant named only four targets, and court records describe them as Hispanic, not Korean.
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Hyundai and LG are now publicly distancing themselves from the litigation, even as some of the detained engineers have quietly gone back to work at the very same site.
More than a year after federal agents swarmed a Georgia battery plant in what officials called the biggest single-site immigration enforcement action in agency history, the South Korean technicians caught up in that operation are finally pushing back in court. Lawyers for the group have begun submitting formal claims against nine federal agencies, a mandatory first step before any civil lawsuit, arguing the men were detained under a warrant that never listed a single one of their names. The filings, sent out this week, are the first coordinated legal response to the operation that halted work at the Hyundai and LG Energy Solution battery site in Ellabell on September 4, 2025.
