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"Three people were detained and spoken to during the search warrants. At this point, no criminal charges have been filed," he said in a statement to AFP.

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But then more than 300 South Koreans were detained in a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in the US state of Georgia.

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It confirmed that "more than 8,000 illegal migrants" were detained across the UK within the past 12 months,

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In that time, nobody was arrested for working illegally, although one man was detained for other offences.

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Robinson told the hearing he had been concerned one of the suspects in the case may have been wrongfully detained due to "inadequacies in the case" during the arrest.

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