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Our Mission
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 children and families, and humane treatment in custody.
The National Immigrant Bond Fund seeks to reaffirm the values of dignity and due process by helping immigrants detained in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions to post bond quickly to secure a fair hearing in America’s courts.
The Challenge
ICE agents and local police conduct workplace raids and other enforcement actions across the country without accountability. They detain and separate hard-working immigrant parents from their children. Detainees who can not afford the bond for release are in accelerated deportation proceedings - with little opportunity to contact their families or legal counsel.
People who are detained by ICE need to post bond immediately to establish immigration court jurisdiction in the district where they were arrested, and avoid ICE's rapid transfer of detainees outside the district. Posting bond also improves the detainee's ability to present his/her case before a judge.
Our Response
> We help immigrants who are swept up in ICE and local enforcement actions. When a person who is detained by ICE pays an immigration bond, s/he can be released while the case is pending. The Bond Fund works with local nonprofits to provide a matching loan to help eligible immigrants post bond. The immigrant's family or friends raise a portion of the bond money too. At the end of the case, the bond funds are returned to the program to help other immigrants!
> We work to build public support for immigration reform by focusing on harsh immigration enforcement tactics, and the lack of rights afforded detainees.
> We support local communities’ efforts to respond effectively to ICE enforcement actions.
ICE Victims We Have Helped
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New Bedford, MA raid, 3/7/07:
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.
Morente S.
Juana G.
Tomas G.
Marta G.
Yolanda O.
Yaquelin V.
Teresa Z.
Luis T.
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Van Nuys, CA raid, 2/8/08:
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.
Mirna L.
San Francisco, CA raid 5/2/08:
Jose P.
Felipe M.
Lydia B.
Daniel G
Miami, FL arrest, 5/08:
Daphne D. |
Annapolis, MD raid, 6/30/08:
Luis H.
Cesar L.
Henry M.
Rodolfo S.
Oscar S.
Juan Carlos G.
Hugo G.
Wilson L.
Carlos S.
Jose R.
Providence, RI raid, 7/15/08:
Arquimedes N.
Filiberto C.
Ruiz A.
Jorge C.
Nelson M.
Alcibiades M.
William A.
Johnny F.
Luis C
Loveland, CO raid, 7/16/08:
Manuel C.
Carlos S.
Jose S.
Fabian C.
Mario M.
Rogelio R.
Servin S.
Bernardo O.
Juan M.
Miguel M.
Ruben M. |
Asheville, NC raid, 8/12/08:
Edell S.
Laurel, MS raid, 8/25/08:
Ismael C.
Salvador A.
Rodolfo L.
Mariano M.
Anastacio C.
Jacobo D.
Osvaldo R.
Carlos P.
Victor S.
Seattle, WA:
Jose P.
Sarita, TX arrest, 11/2/08:
Lucero N.
Palm Beach, FL
6/09:
Andres J.
North Carolina, 9/09 to present:
M.Y.
Luis E.
Samuel U.
Anulfo S.
Alan R.
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Jacobo Diego, home for a fair hearing and a family celebration, thanks to the Bond Fund
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How you can help
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”).
Our Local Partners
The National Immigrant Bond Fund works with local nonprofits that help their communities respond to ICE enforcement actions. These community based organizations identify eligible immigrants, and contact us to apply for bond assistance. The Bond Fund does not have the resources to respond directly to individual requests. Our local partners have included:
* Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) www.gbls.org and the PAIR Project www.pairproject.org. Both organizations mobilized to respond to the New Bedford, MA factory raid in March, 2007, (video link) and the Providence, RI raid in July, 2008.
* The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles (CHIRLA) (video link) www.CHIRLA.org
* The Immigrant Legal Resource Center, in San Francisco, CA. www.ILRC.org
* The Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (FIAC) in Miami, FL. www.fiacfla.org
* CASA de Maryland in Baltimore, MD. www.casademaryland.org
* The Olneyville Neighborhood Association, in Providence, RI.
* The Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC) www.coloradoimmigrant.org in Denver, CO
* Fuerza Latina in Fort Collins, CO. www.cjpe.org/Fuerza_Latina.html
* The Center for Participatory Change (CPC) in Asheville, NC. www.cpcwnc.org
* El Pueblo, in Biloxi, MS. www.elpueblo-ms.org
* The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) in Seattle, WA. www.nwirp.org
* Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) in Weslaco, TX. www.TRLA.org
* Southern Coalition for Social Justice, NC. www.southerncoalition.org
About Us
The National Immigrant Bond Fund is a project staffed and supported by Public Interest Projects. www.publicinterestprojects.org The Bond Fund’s Steering Committee oversees the project, and the National Committee endorses it. To contact the Bond Fund staff, please write to immigrantbondfund@gmail.com
National Bond Fund Committee
Bob Hildreth, Chair
Jeanne Butterfield
Dov Charney
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio,
Diocese of Brooklyn
Father Marc Fallon
Harvey Kaplan
Don Kerwin
Ali Noorani
Anibal Lucas
Ralston H. Deffenbaugh, Jr.
Bishop Jaime Soto,
Diocese of Sacramento
Bishop Thomas Wenski,
Diocese of Orlando
Saul J. Pannell,
The Pannell Family Charitable Fund
Rev. Daniel Vélez-Rivera,
Grace Episcopal Church
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National Steering Committee
Andrea Black,
Detention Watch Network
Susan Timmons,
American Immigration Lawyers Association
Bob Hildreth,
Open America Foundation
Sarah Ignatius,
PAIR Project, Chair
Tanisha Bowens,
Catholic Legal Immigration Network
John Willshire-Carrera/Nancy Kelly,
Greater Boston Legal Services
Paromita Shah,
National Immigration Project of the NLG
Magui Rubalcava Shulman,
Public Interest Projects |
For more information, please contact: immigrantbondfund@gmail.com
Many thanks to our generous volunteer, Ana Luz Diaz, for translating these pages into Spanish
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