Advocates entered a Georgia ICE detention center to visit a queer detainee and felt ‘darkness’

When two Georgia advocates reached Pauline Nadege Binam on the other side of a glass partition Thursday, the queer Cameroonian immigrant appeared exhausted. “I could tell that she’s very tired,” organizer Noël Heatherland told The Advocate after the visit. “She just seems very exhausted.” The conversation at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, south of Columbus, lasted about 40 minutes…