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All people in America, including immigrants, deserve basic human rights and dignity. This includes the right to legal counsel, ability to communicate and visit with their children and families, and humane treatment while in custody.
Everyday the National Immigrant Bond Fund receives requests for help from families, churches, organizations and leaders to help immigrants see their families and have their cases heard in court.
The National Immigrant Bond Fund seeks to reaffirm the values of dignity and due process by assisting immigrants swept up in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions to post bond quickly in order to secure a fair hearing in America’s courts.
To date, the National Immigrant Bond Fund has directed over $210,000 to immigrants swept up in ICE enforcement actions in Van Nuys (CA) (video link), New Bedford (MA) (video link), Nixon (TX), Asheville, NC and Annapolis (MD).
Click here to make a donation to help immigrants secure legal counsel and be with their families.
100% of your tax deductible donation goes to the payment of bonds.
Or, mail your donation to National Immigrant Bond Fund c/o Public Interest Projects, 80 Broad Street 16th Floor, New York, NY, 10004. (Checks should be made to “National Immigrant Bond Fund/Public Interest Projects”).
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The Need
- ICE agents have repeatedly conducted workplace raids and other enforcement actions across the country without accountability. These agents have detained and separated hard-working immigrant parents from their children, often left stranded while waiting to be picked up after school. Enforcement actions have also ignored the health condition of pregnant women and nursing mothers.
- Detainees have gone without access to legal counsel and found themselves in accelerated deportation proceedings - never provided the opportunity to contact their families or legal counsel. These harsh enforcement actions are causing an economic, constitutional and humanitarian crisis in the United States.
- Detainees need to be able to post bond immediately in order to establish immigration court jurisdiction in the district where the arrest took place, thereby avoiding ICE's rapid transfer of detainees outside the district. Posting bond also increases the detainee's ability to argue his/her case for a stay of deportation before a judge.
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The Goals
- Create a fund to assist immigrants, swept up in ICE enforcement actions and not charged with criminal convictions, to post bond so that they can assert their right to legal counsel and due process in court.
- Provide a matching fund program that ensures that immigrants have a stake in the outcome and adhere to the terms of the bond. By making a “pledge of money”, individuals have an incentive to pay back the bond on completion of their legal process so that the funds are then returned to the program to help other immigrants caught in other raids.
- Build public opposition against immigration raids and support for immigration reform by focusing on the lack of rights afforded detainees.
- Support local communities efforts to respond effectively to ICE enforcement actions and raise public awareness of the need for detained immigrants to access due process.
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Who we have helped:
New Bedford, MA
Date: March 7, 2007
Total Bonds:
$201,500
Community Contribution: $84,620
NIBF Contribution: $116,880
Immigrants Served:
- Teresa A.
- Bernardo A.
- Ricardo B.
- Bernabe C.
- Cruz C.
- Jose C.
- Isabel C.
- Guadalupe F.
- Leonete F.
- Arlete G.
- Victoria H.
- Elsy H.
- Esperanza L.
- Antonia M.
- Ricardo M.
- Hector M.
- Zenona O.
- Domingo O.
- Sonia O.
- Manuel P.
- Susana P.
- Yolanda R.
- Margarita R.
- Valencio S.
- Carlos S.
- Bacilia S.
- Mateo T.
- Maximo T.
- Alberto T.
- Luis T.
- Morente S.
- Juana G.
- Tomas G.
- Marta G.
- Yolanda O.
- Yaquelin V.
- Teresa Z.
Van Nuys, CA
Date: February 8, 2008
Total Bonds: $40,500
Community Contribution: $20,250
NIBF Contribution: $20,250
Immigrants Served:
- Flora F.
- Ernestina C.
- Maria A.
- Dianelly G.
- Jose G.
- Altagracia M.
- Martha R.
- Martha E.
- Evencio O.
- Jose R.
- Maria C.
- Leticia M.
- Laura S.
- Jose A.
- Josefina C.
- Wilser G.
- Graciela H.
- Manuel B.
- Ana S.
- Julio G.
- Silvia T.
- Luis G.
- Hugo M.
- Mirna S.
- Alejandro G.
- Manuel D.
Annapolis, MD
Date: June 30, 2008
Total Bonds: $89,300
Community Contribution: $48,650
NIBF Contribution: $40,650
Immigrants Served:
- Luis
- Cesar
- Henry
- Rodolfo
- Oscar
- Juan Carlos
- Hugo
- Wilson
- Carlos
- Jose
Providence, RI
Date: July 16, 2008
$25,550
Community Contribution: $12,750
NIBF Contribution: $12,750
Immigrants Served:
- Arquimedes
- Filiberto
- Ruiz
- Jorge
- Nelson
- Alcibiades
- William
- Johnny
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