FREE THEM ALL!
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Our community members lose many days of their life sitting in cruel immigration jails. Help us free them.
The Vermont Freedom Fund works with immigrants jailed by ICE and their advocates to post bond so they can be released.
“[T]he imposition of bail in an amount that cannot be raised by an accused, in order to obtain his incarceration, is precisely what the law forbids.” Vermont Supreme Court in State v. Pratt.
We are a volunteer run, 501(c)(3) tax-deductible fund that bonds out Vermont-connected community members who have been seized by ICE.
What’s happening in Vermont?
IMMIGRATION JAIL: What’s happening throughout our country is truly horrifying—and it’s happening here in Vermont. ICE arrests and incarcerates our community members, especially Vermont farm workers and construction workers. Vermont Freedom Fund raises money for immigration bonds to free people imprisoned by ICE.
Bonds can range anywhere from $1,500 to more than $20,000 per person. VFF works with Migrant Justice and with pro bono lawyers , as well as families and other bond funds across the country to get our people out of ICE prisons. Together we will continue to free people from immigration prison, reunite families, and keep our communities together in the face of white supremacist and xenophobic state violence.
Who is especially at risk of detention and imprisonment?
Approximately 1000-2000 immigrants from Mexico and Central America have been in Vermont since the mid 1990s, working at dairy farms and sustaining Vermont’s agricultural and construction industries, all while risking deportation. Vermont’s economy depends on migrant farm workers and migrant construcyion workers. In 2020, Migrant Justice was awarded a $100,000 settlement after it was revealed that ICE was surveilling, harassing and detaining Migrant Justice activists in a targeted way.
Why is this happening?
ICE and CPB agents arrest people without judicial warrants (outside doctors’ offices, at supermarkets, at home, walking on farm roads), act abusively and terrorize them on farms, in cars, and at their workplaces, and separate families. These rogue agencies have been allowed to act with impunity for too long.
