""I could not believe what I saw because I would have known, probably before the news," Muñoz said, when asked about his initial reaction to the raid. "So I said, something is weird here. How can something happen [and] nobody told me? And when I go into the details, then I realize it's not our facility. It's LG's battery plant.""
""The factory is operated by LG Energy Solutions, and most of the workers that were detained were employed by suppliers for that company, not Hyundai, José Muñoz said in a briefing with reporters on Thursday after the automaker's CEO Investor Day event in New York City. 'It's like something happened in Fox News,' he continued, in response to a question from a CNN reporter. 'And they said, 'How come you didn't know?' I said, 'Hey, I'm working for CNN,' right? So same deal.'""
Hyundai sought to distance itself from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid earlier this month at a Georgia battery factory that resulted in the arrest of hundreds of South Korean workers. The facility is operated by LG Energy Solutions, and most of the detained workers were employed by suppliers to that company rather than by Hyundai. Company leadership expressed surprise that the operation occurred without prior notification and noted it would have been aware if Hyundai's own facility had been involved. Executives criticized media assumptions tying Hyundai directly to the raid and made remarks after Hyundai's CEO Investor Day event in New York City.
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