We are so happy to share we have freed yet another person from detention through our Families Reunidas Bond Program, Evens . He is a Haitian asylum seeker who was in detention for 8 months. He was detained in the Otay Mesa Detention Center, which continues to have an extreme number of COVID cases, and even had a birthday and turned 22 years old while detained.
We continue to be frustrated to know such young individuals with their whole lives ahead of them continue to be treated unjustly and held for ransom in such terrible conditions. We find comfort knowing that Evens is now headed to Missouri and be reunited with his father and sponsor! We also want to say thank you to the Bay Area Immigration Bond Fund for assisting us in ensuring this man’s freedom. We wish him the best on his new life and journey ahead! Let this story serve as a reminder of all the mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and community members waiting in such conditions in detention, simply for seeking a place or a part in this country Evens represents so many others being subject to racist and inhumane policies, and we must not forget the urgency of getting everyone we can out of the Otay Mesa Detention Center. This pandemic continues to be unforgiving, and we will not allow any more lives lost. Again, we thank you for your support and ask you to continue to help us make sure our folks are #FreeAndAlive.
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