Ellabell, Georgia —

“I have everything (in order), I have no reason to rush,” Luz Dary Suárez’s husband told her over the phone during Thursday’s surprise immigration raid at a Hyundai manufacturing plant a quiet southeast part of Georgia.

Suárez, a migrant from Colombia, had warned her husband about the massive immigration enforcement raid that she had heard was going down at the plant. But he had reassured her that he would be OK as he had a valid permit to work in the US.

Despite this, he was detained and remains in the custody of US immigration authorities, awaiting a review of his case, like other workers at the plant who said that their status in the US was not taken into consideration by authorities during the raid.

More than 500 federal, state and local agents participated

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