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Gavin Blackburn

South Korea sends plane to US to bring back workers detained in Hyundai ICE raid

A South Korean charter plane arrived in the United States on Wednesday to bring back Korean workers detained in an ICE immigration raid on a Hyundai plant in Georgia last week, though officials said the return of the workers will not happen as quickly as they had hoped.

A total of 475 workers, more than 300 of them South Koreans, were rounded up in the 4 September raid at the battery factory under construction at Hyundai’s sprawling auto plant.

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