President Trump on Sunday called on foreign companies investing in the United State to respect the country’s immigration laws after a raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant in Georgia led to arrests of South Korean citizens sent to the plant to construct it.

The strange story in Ellabell, Ga., quickly became an international incident after South Korea reached a deal with the Trump administration to free hundreds of its citizens. South Korea President Lee Jae Myung said he would be sending a charter plane to bring back his country’s citizens.

The South Korean workers at the plant appeared to be caught up in two separate Trump narratives: the president’s efforts to forcibly crack down on immigration and his efforts to leverage trade to get foreign trading........

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