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UNG students make eye-opening trek to immigration detention center
Group visits detainees, helps local shelter
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Twenty-three University of North Georgia students visited the Lumpkin detention center Saturday to visit detainees at the prison and help the nearby shelter El Refugio. The Goizueta Scholars at the school organized the trip and fundraising.
Days after his trip, Bryan Herrera can still remember the Stewart Detention Center detainee’s name and identification number. As he was leaving the South Georgia facility, he looked back at a man he considered hopeful and patient. “The day when I came back from home, I couldn’t get him out of my mind,” Herrera said.