US President Donald Trump on Sunday said foreign workers sent to the United States are “welcome” and he does not want to “frighten off” investors, 10 days after hundreds of South Koreans were arrested at a work site in Georgia.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, the 79-year-old Republican wrote: “I don’t want to frighten off or disincentivize investment.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials alleged South Koreans had overstayed their visas or held permits that did not allow them to perform manual labour.
The Georgia raid was the largest single-site operation conducted since Trump launched a sweeping immigration crackdown across the country.Though the United States decided against deportation, images of the workers being chained and handcuffed during the raid caused widespread alarm in South Korea.