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Assemblymember Juan Carrillo speaks during an Assembly floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 21, 2025. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters After a summer characterized by masked federal agents detaining immigrants in Los Angeles, the California Legislature passed two measures Thursday that seek to force law enforcement officers to identify themselves. Senate Bills 627 and 805 …

INCHEON, South Korea (AP) — More than 300 South Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in the United States last week were brought back home on a charter plane and reunited with their loved ones on Friday. They were among the 475 people detained during the Sept. 4 immigration raid at a battery factory under construction on the campus …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s push to revitalize American manufacturing by luring foreign investment into the U.S. has run smack into one of his other priorities: cracking down on illegal immigration. Hardly a week after immigration authorities raided a sprawling Hyundai battery plant in Georgia, detained more than 300 South Korean workers and showed video of some of them …

Detainees board a bus during a raid by federal agents in which about 300 South Koreans were among 475 people arrested at the site of a $4.3 billion project by Hyundai Motor and LG Energy Solution to build batteries for electric cars in Ellabell, Georgia, on Sept. 4, 2025. U.s. Immigration And Customs Enf | Via Reuters A plane carrying …

People watch a TV screen showing the live broadcast of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s press conference at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. Ahn Young-joon/AP hide caption toggle caption Ahn Young-joon/AP SEOUL, South Korea — U.S. immigration authorities are preparing to send more than 300 South Korean workers home on a chartered …

An Irish grandmother who has lived in the US for most of her life and holds a green card is facing deportation because she wrote a bad cheque for $25 in 2015. Donna Hughes-Brown, 58, was detained in July after landing in Chicago on a flight from Dublin and is being held in isolation in a detention centre in Kentucky. …

At least one of the Korean workers swept up in a huge immigration raid on a Hyundai Motor factory site in Georgia last week was living and working legally in the US, according to an internal federal government document obtained by the Guardian. Officials then “mandated” that he agree to be removed from the US despite not having violated his …

Gloria García was born in Mexico 42 years ago, but for two decades she had been building a life for herself and her family in California and was one step away from obtaining legal permanent residency in the United States. Now, she says, she’s suffering a painful separation from her family, trapped in administrative limbo in Tijuana, even though, she …

Why Trump Immigration Raid Snared South Korea Workers Over Visas  Bloomberg Leaked Ice document shows worker detained in Hyundai raid had valid visa  The Guardian Attorney says detained Korean Hyundai workers had special skills for short-term jobs  AP News Delayed Release of Workers Detained in Georgia Raid Fuels Anger in Korea  The New York Times How the Hyundai raid could upend Trump’s dream of …

ATLANTA (AP) — Can Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp be tough on immigration and still encourage foreign investment? Kemp has courted foreign investment to his state but also once offered to use his own pickup truck to round up “criminal illegals.” Those two stances collided this past week when immigration authorities raided a battery plant and detained foreign workers, putting Kemp …