When federal immigration agents stormed the Hyundai-LG battery plant construction site on September 4, hundreds of workers fled in panic. Some scaled fences. Others hid in air ducts.

“It felt like a war zone,” said Kim, a project manager for a Korean-American subcontractor, who asked to be identified only by his surname due to privacy concerns.

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“We thought we came here to help build Georgia’s largest factory. What we faced instead felt like a military raid.”

The early morning raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) resulted in the detention of 475 workers, including over 300 South Korean nationals, many of whom had entered the United States on

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