South Korea’s foreign minister departed for the U.S. on September 8 to finalize steps for the return of several hundred South Korean workers detained on September 4 in a massive immigration raid in Georgia, as the incident caused confusion, shock, and a sense of betrayal among many in the U.S.-allied nation.

A lawyer for several workers detained at a Hyundai factory in Georgia says many of the South Koreans rounded up in the immigration raid are engineers and equipment installers brought in for the highly specialized work of getting an electric battery plant online.

Atlanta immigration attorney Charles Kuck, who represents four of the detained South Korean nationals, said on September 8 that many were doing work that is authorized under the B-1 business visitor visa program. They had pla

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