(The Hill) – More than 300 South Korean workers were released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody Thursday and are expected to arrive back in their home country on Friday, according to South Korea’s foreign ministry.

The Trump administration released 330 detainees — including 316 Koreans, 10 Chinese nationals, three Japanese nationals and one Indonesian — who were transported by bus to Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport, where they boarded a plane chartered by South Korea’s government.

The release comes nearly a week after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) carried out what it said was the “largest single site enforcement operation” in the agency’s two-decade history.

DHS detained 475 people, mostly Korean nationals, during the ICE operation. The immigra

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