Emergency Funds for Families Affected by ICE Enforcement

On February 10, 2025, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) entered a store in the North End of New Bedford and took one man into immigrant detention. This man (we are not sharing his name to protect his family's privacy) had been in the U.S. for nearly a decade, and has 2 U.S.-born children. We know that the government has its eye on communities like ours, with large numbers of vulnerable immigrants, and we fear that this event is just the opening salvo, and ICE may return and detain more members of our community.

We are raising money to create a rapid response fund so we can support families like this by helping them find legal assistance, and provide material support if one or more of the family's breadwinners are detained. Please give as generously as you can.