MILLCREEK, Utah — Detained by ICE in mid-August. violinist John Shin spoke to the media for the first time on Friday, one day after returning home, and described his experience as dehumanizing.

“I was in constant panic a little bit every night. I wasn't sure what was going to happen tomorrow or the following day," Shin said.

Shin said the day he was arrested, he was in Colorado for work when Department of Homeland Security agents met him at his hotel , and after a 20-minute interrogation, he was detained due to an impaired driver conviction from 2020, which he received shortly after his father passed away.

When taken into custody, already completed probation for that conviction.

“The special agents gave me a three-minute phone call. It was very short phone call to my wife, and it was

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