Overview

• ICE detained 475 workers at Hyundai sites in Georgia, most of them South Korean nationals, in what DHS called its largest single-site operation.
• Seoul says more than 300 detainees will take voluntary return on a charter flight Wednesday following an agreement with Washington.
• U.S. immigration officials offered detainees a choice between voluntary departure with a five-year re-entry bar or continued detention and court proceedings.
• South Korean consular officers have spoken with roughly 250 detainees and reported no indications of unjust treatment or human-rights violations so far.
• Business and diplomatic ripples are emerging as LG Energy delays the battery plant’s production start to next year citing market conditions, and South Korea’s foreign minister heads to the U.S. for talks.