Camille Stewart Gloucester

you know, around and no one that was out there didn't believe that we should be out there and that more help should be out there.

And I literally heard her on the phone getting as many bodies on the ground to start going to those centers where they're being taken to make sure that we would follow them through the entire process.

as best possible monitoring they're well well cared for that they were well cared for as well cared for as possible yeah in a system in a process like that yeah but she literally said they're going to be bussed off and put in cages

and that they would do their best to make sure that no one was split up and that everyone was fed, showered, and they weren't allowed to bring anything with them.

It took me a little while to kind of work through just how I felt about it on an emotional level.

maybe spiritual level.

I, you know, I spoke with family and friends about it, about my experience.

And it's difficult to, I found it difficult to explain my experience because I don't know that somebody can really truly understand that unless they've actually been out there and done it themselves.

because the arguments or their kind of debate, so to speak, what they would come back at me with when I was sharing that is, but we don't have enough food or housing to be able to support that many people coming in.

And I'm like, but we just had so many people and so much money put out there to help.

in a very short amount of time, look how many donations were donated, how much money was contributed in a short amount of time from not that many people.

I'm like, obviously we do have the money.

Obviously we do have the food.

So where's the breakdown?

Is it our system that just doesn't allow for that to happen?

I don't know, and that's where I don't understand it enough, but I feel like it just made me realize that I don't know that anybody...

that I spoke to afterward really understands it enough either because their arguments or their defense and what they tried to share on the opposite side of me going out there and supporting just felt like it was just something to say, you know, and like what they, what they hear from the general media out there.

And they, they also don't really,

They can't quite grasp it, so they're just kind of throwing something out there, I guess, is what it felt like.

I think I'm a really compassionate person and I'm not very political in the sense that I don't really participate.