Donate your Stimulus Check to Migrant Families!
With a new round of stimulus checks we are reopening this fund!
New emergency relief funding continues to exclude undocumented migrants who are disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. Commit your stimulus check to families and individuals who are detained or navigating recent release from immigration detention. Giving your share means detained migrants can access necessities denied by ICE, families can receive support in reuniting, and you can demonstrate solidarity with migrants who are showing incredible resilience in the face of injustice.
Despite a campaign pledge to halt deportations, the Biden administration is still detaining and deporting migrants. ICE has been specifically targeting Black asylum seekers from Jamaica and Haiti, and has deported 26,248 people in less than two months. No matter who is in office, ICE tears families apart and kidnaps our neighbors. We must continue to support those impacted by detention until all are freed. #BidenAlsoDeports
---
Once again, our migrant neighbors are being left out of urgently needed COVID-19 economic relief. While the federal government has excluded migrants from support, ICE continues to detain and deport folks from our communities.
After claiming to halt enforcement in early 2020, ICE continued raids across the country, abducting over 2,000 people in July and August alone. In addition, the pandemic’s economic consequences have disproportionately impacted undocumented communities, with almost half of the migrant population facing unemployment during this crisis . The federal government has made clear their disregard for our undocumented neighbors, so it is up to the community to step in.
ICE detention in and of itself is cruel, but it is especially vile during a pandemic. It is physically impossible to adhere to CDC social distancing guidelines in detention, causing COVID outbreaks in many jails, prisons, and ICE detention centers across the US. The private ICE facility in Farmville, Virginia - where many DMV residents are detained - was at one point the site of the largest migrant detention center COVID outbreak in the country, which led directly to the death of James Hill. Just weeks ago, a COVID outbreak began at Caroline County Detention Center in Virginia.
There is an urgent need to support detained persons and their families. As families desperately seek to get their loved ones out of detention, legal fees and bond payments compound upon the financial hardships caused by the pandemic. Devastatingly, many families have opted to stop fighting their cases and leave the country for their own safety. Your donation of your stimulus check will go directly to individuals experiencing detention and to their families seeking to get by and bring their loved ones home.
Our ultimate goal remains an end to ICE detention and to #FreeThemAll. In the meantime, however, this urgent financial need cannot be ignored. Please contribute, and follow @SanctuaryDMV and @FreeThemAllVA on all social media to keep up with our campaigns and the needs of undocumented folks in the DMV.
FUNDRAISER INFO: Sanctuary DMV will redistribute funds to individuals impacted by detention through organizations we’re in partnership with, including Free Them All VA.