Korean Workers At Hyundai Plant Still Detained As Rescue Flight Delayed

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained 475 workers last week astatine an under-construction Hyundai-LG artillery works successful Georgia. That number included about 300 South Korean citizens, who had been moving for nan 2 South Korean companies, which led South Korean officials to charter a formation to get nan group home. That rescue formation was meant to time off September 10, but now there's immoderate chartless rumor connected nan U.S. broadside preventing nan South Koreans from leaving — and forcing them to walk further clip successful ICE detention. 

South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs put retired a connection saying that nan charter formation had tally into unexpected delays connected nan U.S. side, according to South Korea's JoonAng Daily news. The issue, apparently, lies squarely connected nan U.S.'s broadside of nan playing field. Being a negotiated message, there's small successful nan measurement of specifics, but it judge seems for illustration South Korea wants its group backmost ASAP:

The chartered formation initially group to alert detained Korean workers from nan United States to Korea is "facing trouble gathering nan Sept. 10 departure date," according to nan Ministry of Foreign Affairs connected Wednesday. 

"The departure has been delayed owed to issues regarding nan U.S. side," according to a Foreign Ministry official. No specifications of nan logic aliases a later schedule were revealed.

"We will support our practice pinch nan United States to resume nan departure arsenic soon arsenic possible," said nan ministry, adding that it will notify nan property of immoderate different changes. 

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Given nan chaos of our existent migration enforcement, it's unclear what precisely nan rumor could be. On nan 1 side, Hanlon's Razor says to in installments wide bureaucratic incompetence; connected nan other, nan administration's wide the-cruelty-is-the-point approach whitethorn lead them to deliberation that releasing overseas nationals to nan federation they're from — alternatively than a totally random federation they've ne'er been to for illustration Uganda — looks anemic aliases ineffectual, for illustration showing its belly to nan raving hordes of MS-13 smuggling fentanyl successful from Venezuela. 

South Korean officials person offered safe transition to citizens of different nations aboard nan rescue flight, according to JoongAng Daily, but it's not clear who's really accepted nan offer. This surely seems for illustration a awesome world messiness to make retired of one woman's study of 4 undocumented immigrants, particularly erstwhile galore of nan workers were documented — documents that, apparently, meant thing successful nan look of ICE's demands for group to time off nan United States. If we're now rounding up group based connected group profiling, as explicitly permitted by nan Supreme Court, and ordering them to countries they've ne'er visited contempt valid paperwork, past it's progressively clear this is nary longer astir undocumented immigration.