The massive U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid at a Hyundai EV battery manufacturing plant in Georgia last week has likely set the facility's opening back by several months, Hyundai CEO José Muñoz told reporters Thursday.

"This is going to give us minimum two to three months delay, because now all these people want to get back [to South Korea]," Muñoz said in Detroit, as reported by Bloomberg. "Then you need to see how can you fill those positions, and for the most part, those people are not in the U.S."

When completed, the factory, jointly operated by Hyundai and LG Energy Solution, is expected to hire thousands of American workers. It was originally slated to come online later this year.

However, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) carried out its largest single

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