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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Didi Tang and Paul Wiseman

With Hyundai raid, Trump's immigration crackdown runs into his push for foreign investment

South Korea US Immigration Raid Hyundai Plant - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

President Donald Trump’s push to revitalize American manufacturing by luring foreign investment into the U.S. has run smack into one of his other priorities: cracking down on illegal immigration.

Hardly a week after immigration authorities raided a sprawling Hyundai battery plant in Georgia, detained more than 300 South Korean workers and showed video of some of them shackled in chains, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung warned that the country's other companies may be reluctant to take up Trump’s invitation to pour money into the United States.

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