Attorney Marton in the Press

Robert recently shared his expertise and opinions with the New York Times and Reuters.

Recently, Robert was interviewed and provided a statement for newspaper articles published by The New York Times (on September 12, 2025) and Reuters (on September 19, 2025).

These articles concerned the arrest of over 300 South Korean citizens at an LG/Hyundai battery facility in Georgia. These South Korean citizens were either B-1 visa status or entered in the ESTA program. Neither of these are work visas that allow employment in the US. However, they do allow foreign citizens to visit the US for professional purposes, such as advising, consulting and doing business. It appears that ICE entered the facility under suspicion that citizens of Mexico and Columbia were performing unauthorized manual labor in the facility. When ICE arrived and came across 316 South Koreans, they arrested everyone. Evidence suggests that ICE were not targeting these South Korean citizens because ICE did not bring translators with them. (On previous large scale workplace raids ICE is accompanied by a team of translators fluent in the language of the workers they are targeting.

We invite to consider these articles, in which Robert gives and opinion and contributed quotes on the issue of the advisability of overseas corporations bringing workers to the US under the visitor and ESTA visa programs.