Julio Barahona Exodus Fund
Established in honor of asylum seekers who protested deplorable conditions at the privately run Adelanto Detention Center northwest of Los Angeles that led to five attempted suicides, the Julio Barahona Exodus Fund helps meet the asylum seekers’ immediate needs while continuing the long fight to end the jailing of immigrants.
The suicide attempts, three of them successful, occurred between December 2016 and July 2017. A group of asylum seekers launched a series of hunger strikes to protest an unfair system, and lay and ordained clergy stepped up with CLUE to raise money to post bond for the hunger strikers, so they could reunite with their families and look for attorneys to represent them.
Join us in this struggle for the dignity and compassionate treatment of our brothers and sisters from other countries. Bond amounts average $15,000, and bail companies generally demand 20 percent ($3,000) to guarantee their loan. There is also an additional $800 “release fee.”
Some refugees have family members to help them come up with the money, but others have no extra help. On average, they come up short about $2,300, just on the bond. Each of us has been alone and friendless sometime, and any one of us would welcome help if we were facing such a challenge.
We thank you for your support!
Who's donating
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Joanne Leslie posted about this on Facebook 2017-11-05 15:48:21 -0800Just made a donation to CLUE's Adelanto Bond Fund. Each $3100 brings a hunger striker home! Join me!
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Joanne Leslie donated 2017-11-05 15:48:04 -0800
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Robert Myers posted about this on Facebook 2017-11-05 13:56:18 -0800Just made a donation to CLUE's Adelanto Bond Fund. Each $3100 brings a hunger striker home! Join me!
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Robert Myers donated 2017-11-05 13:55:36 -0800
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Shari Davis donated 2017-11-05 13:28:26 -0800
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Prisca Gloor donated 2017-11-04 12:18:38 -0700
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Dorien Grunbaum donated 2017-11-03 18:10:05 -0700
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Dale Franzen donated 2017-11-03 16:30:30 -0700
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Sue Crumpton posted about this on Facebook 2017-11-03 10:41:16 -0700Just made a donation to CLUE's Adelanto Bond Fund. Each $3100 brings a hunger striker home! Join me!
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Sue Crumpton donated 2017-11-03 10:37:09 -0700
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Barbara Stinchfield donated 2017-11-02 21:37:31 -0700
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Joan Ling donated 2017-11-02 15:33:19 -0700
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Blanca Malpartida-Girard donated 2017-11-02 14:24:24 -0700
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Rochelle Rosenberg donated 2017-11-02 14:19:13 -0700
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Abby Arnold donated 2017-11-02 10:27:21 -0700
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Jesse Rothstein donated 2017-11-02 10:21:56 -0700
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Ellen Dubois donated 2017-11-02 09:52:29 -0700
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Vivian Rothstein donated 2017-10-31 20:30:08 -0700
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Donica Mensing donated 2017-10-25 21:52:21 -0700
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Mary L Riggs Cuyno donated 2017-10-25 18:47:20 -0700
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Dru Coiner posted about this on Facebook 2017-10-25 07:33:44 -0700I just donated to this organization. I feel so much compasion for these individuals. They can't work because it would mean immediate deportation. The conditions at the for profit Adelanto prison are appalling. They were treated as felons while they werein prison. They have committed no crime. Being in the country illegally is an infraction, nota crime. Please donate.
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Dru Coiner donated 2017-10-25 07:18:37 -0700
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Edie Trimmer donated 2017-10-21 10:27:46 -0700
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Sean Hanretta donated 2017-10-20 16:21:17 -0700
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Mai Nguyen donated 2017-10-20 09:27:52 -0700
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Gloria Beetle donated 2017-10-13 10:18:35 -0700
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Joan Speer donated 2017-10-10 17:15:00 -0700
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Eva Soltes donated 2017-10-09 23:05:09 -0700
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Kelly Jafine posted about this on Facebook 2017-10-09 20:52:29 -0700Just made a donation to CLUE's Adelanto Bond Fund. Each $3100 brings a hunger striker home! Join me!
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Kelly Jafine donated 2017-10-09 20:51:11 -0700
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