Workers Detained In Hyundai Plant Raid To Be Freed And Flown Home, South Korea Says

South Korean workers detained during a monolithic migration ambush connected a Hyundai installation successful Georgia will beryllium returned to South Korea connected a chartered flight, President Lee Jae-myung's agency said Sunday.

Federal and migration agents arrested 475 group connected Thursday — mostly South Korean nationals — while executing a judicial hunt warrant arsenic portion of a criminal investigation into alleged unlawful employment astatine nan facility.

“Negotiations for nan merchandise of nan detained workers person been concluded," a statesmanlike spokesperson announced Sunday. “Once nan procedures are complete, nan chartered level will depart to bring our citizens.”

U.S. officials were not instantly disposable for comment.

The incident strained ties pinch South Korea, nan world’s 10th-largest system and a cardinal U.S. state successful eastbound Asia.

The raid, portion of nan Trump administration’s escalating crackdown connected immigrants, was nan largest single-site enforcement cognition successful nan history of nan Department of Homeland Security.

A oversea of agents from HSI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and different national agencies showed up Thursday to nan tract successful nan municipality of Ellabell wherever Hyundai and LG Energy Solution are jointly building a artillery works adjacent to their manufacturing installation for electrical vehicles.