Associated Press photographer DavidGoldmanAP explored a remote detention center and found hopelessness, frustration and a small network of helpers. Read more about the detention center in Lumpkin, Georgia, here:
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The razor-wire-ringed detention center stands beige and gray in the green outskirts of tiny Lumpkin, where detained immigrants outnumber residents. Those immigrants are caught in a larger system of immigration courts that areLumpkin has few available resources — only three immigration lawyers work here full time. There are no hotels, and many businesses in the downtown are shuttered.
Marty Rosenbluth, one of two immigration attorneys who live in Lumpkin, knows how critical it is to have an attorney physically present for detainees. The organization’s phone number is distributed in the Stewart immigration court, and attorney Erin Argueta estimates they get about 100 new calls a month.
“I think that walking into that environment reinforces the desire to give hope to people and get them free to be with their families,” said SIFI attorney Matt Boles, who lives full time in Lumpkin.
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