Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Hyundai Motor CEO Jose Munoz said Wednesday that the White House has called and apologized for September's immigration raid of an electric battery plant in Georgia, framing it as an "accident."
Munoz commented on the raid while on stage during the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore.
"I got a phone call from the White House apologizing for what happened," he said.
Some 300 South Korean workers at a battery-cell manufacturing facility that is a joint venture between Hyundai and LG, both South Korean family-run conglomerates known as a chaebol, were detained by federal immigration agents.
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