SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Trip Tollison, the CEO of the Savannah Economic Development Authority, says he found out about ICE’s raid of the Hyundai megasite at the same time everyone else did: when it made the news.

He was out of the state when it happened, and says he was puzzled by the situation.

What puzzled him even more was the search warrant that federal agents entered the site with. The warrant said Homeland Security was looking for four people. Federal agents ended up arresting 475 people they say were undocumented, or working illegally.

“How in the world does this search warrant match the law enforcement activity that was on site? So a lot of questions started, began to bubble up, you know, bubble up,” says Tollison.

Tollison, as CEO of SEDA, also has a large role to play in t

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