US president says he doesn\u2019t want to \u2018disincentivize investment\u2019 after images of workers chained and handcuffed caused widespread alarm in South Korea<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Donald Trump has said foreign workers sent to the United States are \u201cwelcome\u201d and he doesn\u2019t want to \u201cfrighten off\u201d investors, 10 days after hundreds of South Koreans were arrested<\/a> at a work site in Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a post on his Truth Social platform<\/a>, Trump wrote: \u201cI don\u2019t want to frighten off or disincentivize investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI want them to bring their people of expertise for a period of time to teach and train our people how to make these very unique and complex products, as they phase out of our Country, and back into their land,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n About 475 people, mostly South Korean nationals, were arrested at the construction site of an electric vehicle battery factory, operated by Hyundai-LG, in the south-eastern US state of Georgia on 4 September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials alleged South Koreans had overstayed their visas or held permits that didn\u2019t allow them to perform manual labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Georgia raid was the largest single-site operation conducted since Trump launched a sweeping immigration crackdown across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n