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Buses carrying Korean workers detained arrives at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

ATLANTA – Buses carrying workers from South Korea who were detained last week in an immigration raid at a battery factory were traveling Thursday from a detention center in southeast Georgia to Atlanta, where a charter plane was waiting to take them home.

More than 300 Koreans were among about 475 workers detained during last week’s raid at the battery factory under construction on the campus of Hyundai’s sprawling auto plant west of Savannah. South Korea's foreign ministry has said that a Korean Air Boeing 747-8i that arrived in Atlanta on Wednesday will depart

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