ATLANTA — With takeoff comes tension. One week ago, around 475 workers were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a Hyundai-LG battery factory construction site near Savannah. After more than 300 South Koreans were bused to Atlanta, a charter Korean Air plane flew out of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport bound for Seoul.

Immigration attorney Charles Kuck represents several of the workers, he said, who were engineers and technicians authorized to work in the United States.

"They were supposed to be there, they were legally there, and they never should have been detained," Kuck said. "The fact that ICE shackled engineers and technicians who were literally doing nothing wrong, that's what's got the ire up of the Korean government here."

Kuck said

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