Along with community partner organizations, longtime members, and supportive funders, the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) is launching the Georgia Immigration Bond Fund, designated to provide financial assistance to individuals at one of the four detention centers in Georgia: Stewart Detention Center, Irwin County DC, Folkston DC, and Robert A. Deyton DC - known to be some of the worst detention centers in the U.S.
Immigrants detained in Georgia are long-time residents, asylum seekers, and our neighbors, family, and friends. They deserve to be with their families while fighting their deportation, particularly as the Atlanta Immigration Court that oversees these cases deny ~95+% percent of applications for asylum and other forms of relief. Not only will the GA Immigration Bond Fund be used to secure the release of individuals from detention, it will build on the legacy of GLAHR's organizing work with immigrants and communities impacted to end detention and incarceration in our communities.
We ask that you support this initiative so that in 2020 we get as many people as possible out on the streets fighting alongside us.
Established in 2001, GLAHR is a community-based organization that develops statewide grassroots leadership in Latinx immigrant communities. As a co-anchor of the #GANot1More campaign, GLAHR has fought against the deportations of countless community members throughout Georgia and continues its "ICE Free Zone," a know-your-rights campaign and an organizing defense tool to expand a culture of resistance against arrests and deter deportations on our communities.