Korean workers speak to the BBC about panic and confusion during modern raids.

A Korean worker who witnessed a large -scale immigration operation at Georgia’s automotive factory, the federal agent came down from this site and arrested hundreds of people and told the BBC in panic and confusion.

The person who asked me to maintain anonymity was in a factory owned by Hyundai and LG Energy, when 475 people, including 300 Koreans, were arrested, including 300 Koreans.

He said he first learned about Thursday morning raids when he and his colleagues received a call from the company’s boss. “Many telephones rang and messages were to terminate the operation,” he said.

As President Donald Trump returned to the White House, the biggest raid was unfolded, and the man said that the embarrassed family members attempted to contact the workers.

“They were detained and left all the cell phones in the office and received the phone, but they couldn’t answer because the office was locked,” he said.

According to the US officials, some workers ran away, including some who entered the nearby sewage pond. They were divided into groups according to nationality and visa status before they were treated and loaded by multiple coaches.

About 400 states and federal agents gathered outside the $ 7.6 billion factory complex and were about 30 minutes from Savanasi before entering the scene around 10:30 on Thursday.

Last year, a 3,000 -acre complex opened the door, and workers assemble electric vehicles. Immigration officials were investigating illegal employment practices at the electric vehicle battery factory built in the compound.

The operation has ultimately became the largest single site immigration operation in the history of national security investigations, and officials added that hundreds of people who could not work legally in the United States were detained.

The BBC Verify is reviewing the video posted on social media and photographed inside the battery plant.

One video lined up in the room as a masked man, and wearing a vest and wearing a Walkie -Talkie with the Initial HSI -Land Security Survey, “We have a search warrant for the whole site.

The BBC Verife has legally met workers who are eligible to work in the United States, and in Savana, the closest city to large automotive factories.

The man said, “I was shocked, but I was not surprised.” He said most of the detained workers were the epidemiology of installing production lines on the site and hired by the contractor.

He also said that a few people arrested were dispatched from the headquarters of Seoul and are doing training that the BBC could not confirm.

The man believed that almost all workers had legal rights in the United States, but they had expired the right to work or work in the wrong type of visa.

The BBC contacted Hyundai and LG Energy and presented opinions.

Hyundai and LG ENERGY said in a joint statement after the attack, “We are completely cooperative with the appropriate authorities on the construction site. We have temporarily suspended construction to help them work.”

Hyundai also said, “None of those who are detained based on their current understanding were hired directly by Hyundai Motor Company.”

I added. “We are doing our best to fully comply with all the laws and regulations of all the markets we run.”

The BBC Verify also contacted the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to see the details of the comments and the worker and what they are doing in the factory.

On Friday, the day after the air raid, Steven Schrank, an ICE agent in charge of the operation, said 475 prisoners were “illegally attended in the United States.”

“Workers who entered the United States through various other means, some illegally crossed the border and came through visa exemptions, forbidden to work, and some had a visa and beyond the visa.”

The RAID, dubbed by a civil servant “Operation Low voltage”, was targeted for electric battery factories built in the same site as the existing Hyundai Motor Plant.

ICE has released a video of a raid that shows federal agents arriving at the armored vehicle and organizing workers outside the factory.

Another image shows that the two men in the river are clearly trying to escape, and the other man comes from the water by agents who speak to him in Spanish.

The worker we said said that he had sympathy with the detained people, but the Trump administration said the crackdown was not surprising. “Their slogan is the first of the United States, and if you work legally in the United States, there will be no problem,” he said.

The person said that the time and administrative obstacles related to getting a US visa were encouraging foreign companies to cut the corner to finish the project on time, but now they may need to be reevaluated.

“After this happens, many companies will think about investing in the United States because it can take much longer than before,” he added. “

When the BBC visited this site, there were few signs of strikes on Thursday, but the two security teams asked us to continue to move on to the road.

The electric vehicle factory in Ellavel, Georgia, is a huge complex that dominates landscaping and has been a major employment since the project was announced in 2022.

Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp welcomed a $ 76 billion complex and described it as the largest economic development project in the main history.

The influence of the venture was reflected in the resurrection of the Greater Savannah’s Korean American Association. Cho Dahye, chairman of the Association, said, “The community is growing.”

Dahye, who became an American citizen in the 1980s, is known by her American name Ruby Gould and said that the arrest was shocked by people.

She hopes that attacks in front of the door will not have a bigger impact on the Korean relationships in the southern United States. “It is very shocking to the image of a company that is well -known with me,” she said.

Additional report of AISHA SEMBHI and WOONGBEE LEE