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Immigration Law is Environmental Law

The recent ICE raid on a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia highlights a problem in our visa system — and our politics.

Three weeks ago, federal and state agents conducted an immigration raid at a multi-billion-dollar Hyundai-LG battery plant under construction in Ellabell, Georgia and detained some 475 workers. About 300 of these workers were South Korean citizens. 14 were from China, Japan, and Indonesia. Another 145 were from Mexico and other Latin American countries. As has …

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