Media Contact: Rebekah Entralgo, rentralgo@freedomforimmigrants.org
LOS ANGELES, California -- As part of Freedom for Immigrants commitment to building a world without detention, the organization has launched the Freedom100 Fund -- an impact investment opportunity designed to reunite families separated by the U.S. immigration detention system. There are thousands of people currently behind bars in ICE prisons that could be released to their families, however high bond amounts set by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or immigration judges keep them detained. The current system is inhumane and unsustainable.
The Freedom100 Fund, offered by Mission Driven Finance, pairs philanthropic dollars to post bond for 100 immigrants in mandatory immigration detention. In turn, Freedom for Immigrants will provide each person bonded out with opportunities to strengthen relationships with those who have similar experiences, while creating an organized post-release ecosystem that provides mental health services, access to volunteer-support services and court hearing reminders, and ultimately demonstrates a world without detention.
“U.S. immigration detention is entirely driven by profit and pushes loved ones into poverty while creating emotional trauma for everyone involved,” said Christina Mansfield, co-founder and co-executive director of Freedom for Immigrants. “We must envision and build what a world without these systems looks like where immigrants are treated with compassion, not confinement.”
Together we can build this dream. Learn more about the Freedom100 Fund here and donate here.
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Freedom for Immigrants is devoted to abolishing immigration detention, while ending the isolation of people currently suffering in this profit-driven system. We monitor the human rights abuses faced by immigrants detained by ICE through a national hotline and network of volunteer detention visitors, while also modeling a community-based alternative to detention that welcomes immigrants into the social fabric of the United States. Through these windows into the system, we gather data and stories to combat injustice at the individual level and push systemic change. Visit www.freedomforimmigrants.org. Follow @MigrantFreedom