South Korea reaches deal with US to release workers detained after immigration raid

The South Korean government has reached a deal with the U.S. to secure the release of hundreds of migrant workers detained at a Hyundai automobile factory in Georgia.

Homeland Security Investigations said 475 people who were in the country illegally, primarily from South Korea, were arrested as part of the operation at the under-construction battery plant. Hyundai owns the plant, but claimed none of the workers were directly employed by the company.

President Lee Jae Myung's office says the country will send a charter plane to bring the workers back to South Korea in the coming days.

South Korea’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement last week to express "concern and regret" over the raid.