Last month’s stunning immigration raid on a Hyundai plant in Georgia came despite a months-long charm offensive the automaker had launched to win over President Trump in the age of tariffs and tight border security, according to a new report.
Hyundai Motor Group donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration and pledged a whopping $26 billion in investment in the US, The Wall Street Journal reported — only for the feds to slam the company with tariffs, and then the raid, anyway.
With more than 300 South Korean professionals shackled in the Sept. 4 immigration sweep at Hyundai’s “Metaplant” in Savannah, Ga., the raid was the largest single-site enforcement action in Homeland Security Investigations’ history. 3
Prior to that, Hyundai pledged about $21 billion in investments in the US —