DELAYED, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. Hyundai’s decision to delay the opening of an electric vehicle battery plant following a large immigration raid at its sprawling Georgia facilities seemed to put the state’s largest economic development project in peril.

But Hyundai President and CEO José Muñoz sought to calm those fears on Thursday, saying the company’s “commitment to this state and its people is stronger than ever.”

“Georgia has been our home in America for more than 15 years, and our $12.6 billion investment in the Metaplant represents our unwavering confidence in this state’s future,” Muñoz said.

The vote of confidence from Hyundai’s top official is sure to soothe fears from coastal business leaders worried about the project’s future. And it’s also a reprieve of sorts for Gov. Brian Kemp, whose economic legacy is intertwined with the project that Muñoz says will create up to 40,000 direct and indirect jobs in the region.

The politics surrounding the raid are still fraught. On Thursday, the Trump administration released more than 300 workers who had been detained in the raid. Some of them flew back to South Korea on a Boeing 747 that took off while members as Korean journalists watched.