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John Shin, a Utah violinist originally from South Korea, has been released from a Colorado immigration detention facility.

Shin's case has prompted a strong outpouring from the music community and others, and he spoke out on his return to Utah.

Though released from custody, his immigration case remains unresolved.

MILLCREEK — Held inside a Colorado immigration detention facility, packed into a cell block with around 70 others, sleeping each night on a thin mat, not knowing what the future held, John Shin says he sank into a depression.

The first day, after being shackled by immigration agents in Colorado Springs and sent to detention facility in Aurora, was particularly difficult. "I was absolutely terrified. Obviously I cried all day,"

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