Another person is free! 🎉 Thanks to your support, we’ve bonded out another individual from ICE detention, bringing our total to 17 people freed this year.

MIBF continues to see a surge in bond applications, and thanks to your generous support we have been able to keep the app open all year, we were able to bond out an additional individual recently—bringing our total to 13 people freed in 2025!

“This policy is associated with some of the most shameful stains on our country’s history, including the reactionary and xenophobic internment of more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent in concentration camps across the United States during WWII…”

Women in immigration detention experience unique abuses, but they also fight back by telling their own stories and demanding justice. Today, on International Women's Day, donate to MIBF to help us #FreeThemAll

We have bonded out 4 individuals this week! Totaling 12 folks in 2025. We cannot do this without your continued support. Thank you for helping us get folks out of detention!

Yesterday, we posted a bond to free one more individual, totaling 8 people in 2025!

This week MIBF joined over 200 human rights organizations in a letter to congress demanding they reject funding for the Trump Administration's unprecedented expansion of the immigrant detention system to detain over 120,000 people, including the use of military assets and bases including Guantanamo Bay.

As we approach the end of Black History Month, we invite our online community to continue the year-round work of dismantling anti-Black racism in immigration advocacy through education and intentional conversations.

After President Trump's inauguration, ICE detentions at Boone County Jail surged, with 77% of January's 113 arrests occurring post-inauguration. This reflects a nationwide increase in immigration enforcement under the new administration.

This ProPublica story highlights the resilience of Nicaraguan immigrants in Wisconsin, who are sending belongings home as they prepare for potential mass deportations.

Yesterday, we posted the bond to free one more individual, totaling 7 people in 2025!

MIBF joined over 650 organizations in support of the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act of 2025, which was reintroduced in Congress late last week.

Yesterday, we helped free TWO MORE folks from detention. Thats now 6 people in 2025!

MIBF facilitates a revolving immigration bond fund to pay immigration bonds that frees individuals from ICE custody and gathers community to advocate for the abolition of immigration detention and surveillance.

MIBF condemns the passage of the Laken Riley Act. By expanding the categories of immigrants subject to mandatory ICE detention, this bill reinforces the harmful narrative that immigrants are criminals, unjustly separates individuals from their communities, and undermines the presumption of innocence that this nation claims to uphold. MIBF firmly maintains that any detention of individuals is unjust, unnecessary, and should be abolished.

Yesterday Francia Garcia Hernandez at Block Club Chicago published "Chicago’s Immigrants Are Being Targeted By ICE. Here’s What You Can Do To Help." We created this graphic for your reference on ways to help!

Last week our amazing bond team posted THREE bonds to help release three folks from detention. We have now posted 4 bonds this month thanks to your support!

MIBF was mentioned in the Evanston RoundTable's article this week titled "We don’t know what’s coming’: Bracing for immigration raids, city hosts Know Your Rights workshop." Thanks to support from Fred Tsao, senior policy counsel at Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

"Whatever he chooses is going to result in chaos," says MIBF President Guadalupe Perez about Trump’s proposed mass-deportation plan. The reality of widespread detention is not just cruel, but logistically impossible.

Let’s uplift organizations making a difference in the lives of our immigrant communities.