The United States said Wednesday that it welcomed investment from South Korea, which dispatched a plane to repatriate hundreds of workers arrested in an immigration raid that shocked the close US ally.

South Koreans made up the majority of 475 people arrested at a Hyundai-LG battery plant under construction in the US state of Georgia last week, according to immigration agents.

The operation was the largest single-site raid conducted under US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, according to an investigating agent.

Foreign Minister Cho Hyun flew to Washington where Secretary of State Marco Rubio met him behind closed doors and issued a statement saluting the endurance of the alliance with the South, formally known as the Republic of Korea.

Rubio said the United States “welcom

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