U.S. immigration authorities arrested 475 people while executing a judicial search warrant at a Hyundai facility in Georgia on Thursday.

Steven Schrank, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Georgia, called the raid the “largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security Investigations.”

The search at the plant, where Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles, shut down construction on an adjacent factory being built to produce EV batteries.

During a press conference on Friday, Schrank said those arrested were mostly South Korean citizens and “illegally present in the United States or in violation of their presence in the United States, working unlawfully.”

He added that the operation “underscores our commitment to jobs for Georgian

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