A Korean Air Boeing 747-8I sent from Seoul to repatriate hundreds of South Korean workers who were detained last week in an immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant under construction in Georgia is seen in the cargo area of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta on Sept. 10, 2025.

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More than 300 South Korean nationals detained by federal agents in a massive immigration raid last week on a Hyundai plant in Georgia for alleged visa violations were released early Thursday and were being taken to Atlanta’s Hartfield-Jackson airport for a charter flight back to their country.

The South Korean workers were among some 475 people detained on Sept. 4 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a still-under constru

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