More than 300 South Korean workers detained after a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia will be released and returned home, the South Korean government announced on Sunday.
Kang Hoon-sik, chief of staff to President Lee Jae Myung, said South Korea and the US have finalized negotiations for the release of the workers.
He said South Korea plans to send a charter plane to bring the workers home once the remaining administrative steps are completed.
US immigration authorities said on Friday they detained 475 people, most of them South Korean citizens, when hundreds of federal agents raided Hyundai's Georgia manufacturing site, where the Korean automaker makes electric vehicles.
The agents focused on a factory that is still under construction, in which Hyundai has partnered with LG Energy Solution to produce batteries that power electric vehicles.
South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said more than 300 South Koreans were among those detained. The operation is the latest in a long line of workplace raids carried out as part of the Trump administration's mass deportation agenda.
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