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AP visits immigrant courts across U.S., finds nonstop chaos

(David Goldman | AP) A detainee talks on the phone in his pod at the Stewart Detention Center, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Lumpkin, Ga. It's difficult for detained immigrants to see or even speak to lawyers who live far away, and they have no access to email or fax and the phones sometimes don't work or are expensive, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center attorney Erin Argueta, one of three attorney's who work full time in Lumpkin. Communications have to be sent by mail, which slows the process of collecting documentation, filling out forms in English and getting documents translated and notarized.