Hyundai announced Thursday that it plans to ramp up U.S. based vehicle manufacturing, continuing investment in a Georgia-based plant that was recently at the center of a controversial immigration raid.

Hyundai says it will invest another $2.7 billion through 2028 at its electric vehicle plant in Ellabel, Georgia, pushing the factory's capacity to half a million vehicles. The expansion is expected to create some 3,000 local jobs.

By 2030, the company plans to make 80% of the vehicles it sells in the U.S. market within the United States.

Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp praised the expansion on social media, saying he looked forward to the company's growth in the state for "years to come."

Early in September, federal law enforcement officials conducted a raid at the Georgia pla

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