Imagine friends invite you and your family to stay for the weekend but, in the middle of the night, they call the police, saying they’re victims of a home invasion.…

Today at 3.23pm local time, a chartered Boing 747 carrying 316 South Korean engineers and technicians – who just spent six days imprisoned in a detention centre in the US state of Georgia – touched down safely at Seoul’s Incheon International Airport.

US diplomacy appeared to be in disarray today as families of 300 South Korean nationals detained in a massive immigration raid on a construction site in Georgia learned they would not be flying home today as expected.

An Atlanta lawyer representing seven South Korean workers and five others who were detained last Thursday during a massive raid led by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on a $4.3bn EV battery plant under construction in Georgia has told GCR that ICE’s actions broke federal law.

South Korean foreign minister Cho Hyun will fly to Washington, DC today after immigration enforcement officers on Thursday raided an electric-vehicle battery plant under construction in Georgia, arresting some 300 Korean nationals and sparking a diplomatic incident.