Friday, November 14, 2025

Adventures in nativism: Tired old man forced to flip-flop on revocation of visas for South Korean workers at Georgia Hyundai plant

 
Headline:  New York Times, 11/13/2025

John Yoon reports:
South Korean workers began returning to a factory in Georgia last month after the State Department reissued their visas, as the Trump administration seeks to undo the damage from a large workplace immigration raid. [emphasis added]
About 180 people who were in the United States on B-1 business visas have had them restored, said Kim Min-su, who was among those detained in the raid on Sept. 4 in southern Georgia. Two lawyers representing the workers confirmed that all the B-1 visa holders who were detained — out of 317 South Koreans detained in total — had their visas restored. 
At least 30 of those workers have gone back to the battery plant, which is owned by Hyundai and LG Energy Solution, said Mr. Kim, who has surveyed the South Korean ex-detainees in preparation for a class-action lawsuit against U.S. immigration authorities over their detention. His account was corroborated by screenshots and photos shared with The New York Times that show visa renewals for two of the workers.

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