In a statement released Friday, the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of Georgia said the operation — which was the largest single-site raid in the Department of Homeland Security’s history — was part of a nationwide initiative, known as Operation Take Back America, to “repel the invasion of illegal immigration.”

SEOUL: The South Korean government and companies have repeatedly tried to resolve visa issues under the Trump administration and repeatedly fallen short, local media reported Wednesday (Sept 10).

Many South Korean workers were sent to the U.S. on questionable documents despite their misgivings and warnings about stricter U.S. immigration enforcement before last week's raid.

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SEOUL— The U.S. has agreed to release the workers, who will be flown home once paperwork is finalized. President Trump defended the raid, saying the workers were in the country illegally and that the U.

“We’re going to do more worksite enforcement operations,” White House border advisor Tom Homan said on Sunday. “No one hires an illegal alien out of the goodness of their heart. They hire them because they can work them harder, pay them less, undercut the competition that hires U.S. citizen employees.”

An immigration raid at a Hyundai electric vehicle plant in Georgia that saw hundreds of South Korean nationals detained has

Federal immigration agents raided a Hyundai plant in Georgia, detaining nearly 500 people, mostly South Korean nationals. This action has sparked outr