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.

Just over a week into the new year and MIBF has posted our first bond of 2025!

Happy New Year from MIBF. This week, we're reflecting on our work this past year and looking forward. Throughout the year we work to free individuals from ICE detention. In 2024 we helped free 19 individuals from detention, totaling $83,000. We were able to do this with the support of our community, family members, and grants. This makes the average bond we posted last year: $4,368.

One donation, endless impact. 💫

We are so grateful for everyone's support last week during our Giving Tuesday Campaign. We surpassed our $4,000 goal with $5,638! It was our third year participating in Giving Tuesday and because of its success we are very excited to be able to post 1-2 more bonds from Giving Tuesday donations alone!

We are thrilled to announce that MIBF has successfully served as the obligor for our 19th bond posting this year! As we continue to drive impact through your support, please consider donating today.

Thank you for helping us reach our goal of $4,000 to free folks from ICE detention and support a world without detention. We will be able to reopen our application as soon as the funds are processed! #WeKeepUsSafe

This #GivingTuesday, join us in our collective vision to build a world where all people are free to move and stay with autonomy.

Giving Tuesday is TOMORROW! Help us raise $4,000 to continue the fight for collective care and liberation by bonding immigrants out of detention. Thanks to your support, we’ve already bonded out 18 people this year, totaling $77,500.

Giving Tuesday is 2 days away! We are sharing "immigration detention news" in the Midwest. No one should have to face immigration detention alone. Your donation this #GivingTuesday will directly fund bonds to free people from ICE detention and fight for a world without it.

We recently joined 100+ organizations in a letter on Friday urging the White House to immediately use its authority to terminate DHS’ non-compliant AI programs and to deny waivers and exemptions that would enable DHS to continue withholding information from the public about its use of AI for surveillance, detention and deportations. 

We believe that all individuals, without any exceptions, are worthy of dignity and respect and that the detention of all individuals is unjust, unnecessary, and should be abolished. We are thrilled to announce that MIBF has successfully served as the obligor for our 18th bond posting this year!

Last week, MIBF joined 192 immigrant and civil rights organizations in a letter sent to President Biden and DHS Secretary Mayorkas urging them to take immediate action to protect immigrant communities before the next president follows through on his mass deportation plans, separating families and upending the lives of millions of people in the process.

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. #GivingTuesday is 2 short weeks away, please consider sharing your wealth and resources with us this Giving Tuesday and beyond and help us build a world where people are free to move and stay with autonomy. Link in bio! #WeKeepUsSafe #CommunityNotCages

Last week, we joined 90+ immigration groups in asking President Biden to release vulnerable people with illnesses or disabilities, who are LGBTQ+, or who are at risk of persecution or torture from detention centers across the United States as being detained puts their lives in jeopardy.