Allied Pressure Eases ICE Crackdowns

ICE reportedly detained about 475 undocumented Korean workers at a Georgia EV battery plant but released them after a deal with South Korea’s Foreign Ministry. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial then defended keeping the workers to speed U.S. construction. Together this suggests immigration enforcement becomes malleable when it clashes with strategic supply chains and allied diplomacy. — If allies can negotiate away domestic enforcement at critical plants, immigration policy, industrial strategy, and geopolitics are tightly coupled—creating two‑tier rule of law risks where strategic sectors get softer treatment.