Hyundai on Thursday said work on its Georgia battery plant where hundreds of workers were detained in an immigration raid will be delayed by up to three months.

Hyundai Chief Executive Officer José Muñoz said the enforcement action leaves the battery plant, which Hyundai operates with LG Energy Solutions, short of workers, Bloomberg first reported.

"This is going to give us minimum two to three months delay, because now all these people want to get back," Muñoz told reporters in Detroit on Thursday. "Then you need to see how can you fill those positions. And for the most part, those people are not in the U.S."

Hyundai told CBS News it had no further comment on the matter. LG Energy Solutions did not immediately responded to CBS News' requests for comment.

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