US Detains 475 in Migrant Raid at Georgia EV Battery Plant (1)

Federal agents detained 475 people at Hyundai Motor Co.’s $7.6 billion manufacturing complex in Georgia this week, the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of the Homeland Security Department’s investigative arm.

The sweep, carried out Thursday at a construction site for an electric-vehicle battery plant near Savannah, was part of a months-long investigation into employment practices. The probe went far beyond the kind of raid “where agents went into the premises, rounded up folks, and put them on buses,” said Steve Schrank, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations. The majority of those detained were Korean nationals, ...