(8 Sep 2025)
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Savannah, Georgia – 8 September 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniela Rodriguez, Migrant Equity Southeast:
"On Thursday, September 4th, my team and I woke up to the devastating news. Immigration and Custom Enforcement was at Hyundai. From 11 a.m. until almost 11 p.m., it was chaotic. Not just for the immigrant workers, but for the entire community as a whole. Helicopters and drones circled the facility. Roads were blocked and our phones rang non-stop."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniela Rodriguez, Migrant Equity Southeast:
"Many of these people had legal work permits. Yet they still felt intimidated, mistreated and abused by ICE. Make no mistake, we cannot call ourselves a civilized society if the very people who build our homes, our cars and our futures are treated this way. "
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Meredyth Yoon, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta:
"Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta condemns ICE’s raid and arrest of nearly 500 workers from the Hyundai work site in Ellabell, Georgia, in the strongest of terms. ICE’s actions have torn through communities leaving families unsafe, uncertain and afraid. Many of the workers ICE detained have work permits and other forms of documentation. Documented or not, no one should be subjected to militarized raids in their workplace. No family should live in fear of being torn apart."
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AP Video by Russ Bynum
STORYLINE:
Local leaders and immigrant activists spoke out Monday against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on a Hyundai battery plant in rural Georgia.
U.S. immigration authorities, on Sept. 4, raided the sprawling site where Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles in southeast Georgia, conducting a search that shut down construction on an adjacent factory being built to produce EV batteries.
The operation targeted one of Georgia’s largest and most high-profile manufacturing sites, touted by the governor and other officials as the largest economic development project in the state’s history. Hyundai Motor Group began manufacturing EVs a year ago at the $7.6 billion plant, which employs about 1,200 people.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Lindsay Williams confirmed that federal authorities were conducting an enforcement operation at the 3,000-acre (1,214-hectare) site west of Savannah. He said agents were focused on the construction site for the battery plant.
"Many of these people had legal work permits. Yet they still felt intimidated, mistreated and abused by ICE. Make no mistake, we cannot call ourselves a civilized society if the very people who build our homes, our cars and our futures are treated this way," said Daniela Rodriguez, executive director of Migrant Equity Southeast.
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