United States immigration authorities have arrested 475 people in a raid on a Hyundai manufacturing site in Georgia, Steve Schrank, a special agent in charge of Homeland Securities Investigations Atlanta, said at a press conference on Friday.

The Hyundai facility, located in Ellabell, Georgia -- approximately 30 miles west of Savannah -- was raided "as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations of unlawful employment practices and other serious federal crimes," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security.

The raid was authorized by a judge-issued search warrant following a monthslong investigation of the facility, Schrank said. The investigation of the worksite remains active, he added, but no charges of wrongdoing have been filed.

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