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Why is the US government deporting people building factories?

The ICE raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia exposes the conflict between Trump’s key priorities, and could jeopardise relations between the US and one of its major trading partners

Hundreds of workers, most of them South Korean nationals, were detained last week at a Hyundai plant in Georgia after the largest immigration raid of Trump’s second term. The raid puts two of the administration’s key priorities to the test - cracking down on illegal immigration and bringing manufacturing back to America - but has it exposed a conflict between the two policy goals?

We speak to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Verify US Correspondent Nick Beake who has been to the site, and to Jake Kwon from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Seoul bureau, about whether this has jeopardised relations between the US and one of its major trading partners.

Producers: Sam Chantarasak and Xandra Ellin
Executive producers: James Shield and Annie Brown
Mix: Travis Evans
Senior news editor: China Collins

Image: US immigration raid at Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia. Shutterstock/EPA

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