Hundreds of people who were among those detained by U.S. immigration authorities while working on building an electric vehicle battery plant for Hyundai and LG Energy Solution in Georgia are expected to fly home to South Korea on a chartered plane out of Atlanta as early as Wednesday.

A Korean Air Boeing 747-8I that departed from Seoul landed in Atlanta on Wednesday to collect those workers.

U.S. officials have not said if or when any of the workers will be released from detention and allowed to return to South Korea.

South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C. Cho arrived in the United States earlier this week, intent on helping his fellow citizens return to Korea.

A spokesperson for South Korea's Forei

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