This image from video provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via DVIDS shows manufacturing plant employees being escorted outside the Hyundai Motor Group's electric vehicle plant on Sept. 4, 2025, in Ellabell, Georgia. Photo provided by Corey Bullard/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP

An immigration attorney says many South Korean workers detained in a U.S. immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in southeast Georgia were brought in for highly specialized work that Americans aren't trained to perform.

Charges against 61 defendants accused of a conspiracy to halt the construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center are likely to be dropped.

A federal judge has rejected a challenge to two provisions of Georgia's election law related to absentee ballot applications.

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