Trump threatens to call national emergency in Washington DC over Ice cooperation – US politics live

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Trump threatens to call national emergency in Washington DC over Ice cooperation – US politics live

President vows to ‘federalize’ capital city after mayor says police will not work with Ice in immigration crackdown

Donald Trump has said foreign workers sent to the US are “welcome” and he doesn’t want to “frighten off” investors, just over a week after hundreds of South Koreans were arrested at a work site in Georgia.

About 475 people, mostly South Korean nationals, were arrested at the construction site of an electric vehicle battery factory, operated by Hyundai-LG, in the south-eastern US state of Georgia on 4 September.

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