ATLANTA — An immigration raid on a Korean-owned manufacturing site in South Georgia has its roots in more than a decade of work by three Georgia governors. The political effort got the jobs, but federal agents took away hundreds of them with 475 arrests last week.

Just days earlier, Gov. Brian Kemp announced a new Korean biotechnology company, JS Link, would locate a "rare earth permanent magnet manufacturing facility," creating 520 new jobs in Muskogee County.

Kemp is the latest in a line of Georgia governors who have nurtured new businesses from Korea—including the Hyundai plant in South Georgia and its adjacent battery plant, where the raid took place.

But while Homeland Security agents talked up their haul of arrests , state Rep. Marvin Lim (D-Norcross) says immigrant communities

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