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The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund facilitates a revolving immigration bond fund to pay immigration bonds and free individuals from ICE custody and gathers community to advocate for the abolition of immigration detention and surveillance.

06/08/2026

Indiana has become a hub of immigration detention in the Midwest. Here’s what you need to know. ⬆️

Sources:

on 287(g) Agreements with Indiana State Agencies: https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/08/01/indianas-state-police-prisons-and-more-ink-immigration-enforcement-agreements-with-ice/

Indiana Capital Chronicle on SEA 76 Immigration Enforcement: https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/02/26/immigration-crackdown-heads-to-indiana-governor-after-falling-short-last-year/

Indiana Capital Chronicle on Money Owed by ICE: https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/briefs/feds-owe-indiana-millions-for-immigration-detention-at-state-prison/

on Abuse at Miami Correctional: https://www.aclu-in.org/news/it-felt-hopeless-like-you-were-going-to-die-the-abuse-in-miami-correctional-facilitys-dark-cells/

on conditions at Miami Correctional: https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/ice-says-prison-meets-standards-but-inmates-describe-subpar-conditions

on Deaths at Miami Correctional: https://www.wfyi.org/statewide/2026-04-21/state-police-investigating-third-death-at-miami-correctional-facility-this-month

on habeas numbers: https://projects.propublica.org/habeas-tracker/

WFYI on End ICE Detention at Miami Correctional Campaign and May 16 Actions: https://www.wfyi.org/wfyi-news/2026-05-17/speedway-one-of-numerous-statewide-locations-people-rallied-against-ice-in-indiana

05/30/2026

SIX people freed from ICE this week! This brings our total for 2026 to 200 people.

This week, we and several other bond funds around the country reported outages from CeBonds, the online portal ICE uses for the payment and processing of bonds. This is not even the first time this year CeBonds has been down, and every time, it results in longer detention times, frustration and anxiety for both the folks held inside, and their families and loved ones waiting for them to be released.

You know who didn’t report a CeBonds outage? ICE.

Bond funds like us are able to see these patterns because of the sheer number of bonds we have in progress at any given time, the number of bonds we have processed historically. We know who to reach out to, how to troubleshoot for stalled bonds. We are also part of a bigger network of bond funds that can communicate patterns and data across states and practices. Individual family members trying to pay for their loved ones don’t always have the benefit of all this data, and so to them, a CeBonds outage just looks like a stalled case—something has gone wrong, but it’s not systemic, it’s individual. Maybe there’s an appeal on the bond grant, maybe your loved one is lost in the system, maybe the bond hearing was an elaborate hallucination or a cruel joke and the hope you thought you had to see your loved one is gone.

There are so many things that are wrong with the immigration and CeBonds system, it almost feels goofy to say something as basic as “the system shouldn’t go down, and if it does, people should be clearly notified and given a time frame for resolution” but also: CeBonds shouldn’t be experiencing outages, but if it does, people should be clearly notified, alternate methods for bond payment should be provided, and there should be clear time frames for resolution.

05/26/2026

We invite interested individuals to apply to become part of MIBF’s board of directors for the upcoming board term of July 2026-June 2027.

We are recruiting 4 new board members to join our returning 11 members. Visit the link in our bio for more info and instructions on how to apply!

05/23/2026

THIRTEEN people freed from ICE this week, for a total of 194 people liberated in 2026.

This week, thanks to the changes in the 6th circuit, we received a truly astronomical number of bond requests this week. While many of them are still working their way through the system, we anticipate another week of high requests next week as well. This is obviously fantastic news—the justice system, for once, recognizing that the policy of mandatory detention is unjust, unconstitutional, and frankly inhuman.

The truth is though, we are currently spending money much, much faster than we have donations coming in. We haven’t had to close our application in well over a year, but that’s the reality we are facing if this trend continues.

Help us rise to the moment, help us free even more people next week. Donate. mibfc.org/donate

05/20/2026

AMAZING news—thanks to recent changes in the 6th circuit (which overlaps our service area in Kentucky, a state with EXPLODING detention capabilities)—hundreds of people are newly eligible for bond.

We have gotten over $200k in requests just since Monday from folks held in Kentucky from all over the midwest, and anticipate many more coming. While we are THRILLED to be able to bond people out, we also need your help to ensure we can meet the need as it rolls in.

Donate at mibfc.org/donate

05/16/2026

SEVEN people freed from ICE detention this week, bringing our total for 2026 to 181.

In the last few weeks, we have paid several bonds where ICE has notified us about a pending arrest warrant for the person in the criminal system, and that as soon as we pay the bond, that person will be arrested. In each case, after consulting with family and attorneys, we have paid the bond anyways.

Many of these arrest warrants are the result of folks missing court. After a criminal court issued their release they were transferred to immigration custody, resulting in them missing a criminal hearing and a warrant being issued. Even though the criminal and immigration systems are deeply intertwined, they often don’t communicate well, and issues end up compounding and being made worse by the interaction of both these carceral systems.

To wit, in the last few weeks, Cook County (Chicago) has seen an increase in activity and arrests at four of their courthouses, leading to fear around what should he be an ordinary part of civic life.

Being bonded out of immigration detention often means folks have a better shot not only at fighting their immigration cases, but also at clearing up issues in the judicial system. And so even if someone is being transferred from one prison to another, we will still pay a bond, and we are immensely grateful to all our colleagues at who do work across the system to help get people free.

05/09/2026

SIX people released from ICE this week, bringing our total for 2026 to 174.

This is twice as many people as we released last year. While there’s a lot to celebrate in that number—174 represents a lot of people going home, a lot of our hard work and the hard work of a whole community of attorneys and people who fundraised—it’s a lot more complicated than that.

174 people freed the first full week of May also represents a rise in the number of people detained, a rise in cruelty and terror in our communities. Just about every single one of those 174 people needed to have a lawyer to fight a lengthy and expensive habeas case to get them out—where even a few years ago many of these people had the right to a bond hearing. 174 people with record bond amounts.

You will often hear us say that we will keep doing this work until there is no more work left to do—until the last prison crumbles into dust, until the last person is freed. We are proud of the work 174 people freed represents, but we are also angry that this work is needed.

05/02/2026

EIGHT people freed from ICE detention this week, bringing our grand total up to 168 people for 2026!

This weeks update comes not from the bond payments but from the mailbox. We received SEVEN checks from the US treasury for returned bonds, in large part thanks to the ongoing work of Castañon Nava litigation.

You may remember Castañon Nava as the lawsuit that at the end of last year, meant we were fundraising on the chance that we would be able to get out hundreds of people on $1500 bonds. While that ruling was overturned, the litigators in the case have been hard at work adjudicating every single illegal warrantless arrest in the Chicago Field Office. When an arrest is deemed to be illegal, bond amounts get returned. Better yet—the folks in question also get released from the Alternatives to Detention program—no more bulky ankle monitors or pesky app check ins, just actual, unencumbered liberation.

If you want to learn more about Castañon Nava, or want to report a violation of the consent decree involved, get in touch with the team over at

04/25/2026

NINE people freed from ICE this week. Nine people leaving detention centers and taking cars, buses and planes all the way to the homes they left against their wills. Nine people reunited with their loved ones, getting to decide for the first time in weeks or months whether to have their lights on or off, when to leave a room or go into it, whether they want to be alone or with other people. More importantly, they can decide whether to go to the doctor, can get out of situations that feel unsafe or violent, can make choices for themselves. Detention systematically works to strip people of so much agency.

Free them all, free them now.

04/17/2026

SEVEN people freed from ICE detention this week! Seven people out of immigration detention centers across the country. This brings our total number of releases up to 151 people in 2026.

Throughout the course of a single week, we get to work with so many incredible organizations and individuals—work that isn’t always visible to the general public. From (and the countless member bond funds) who give us advice and send us referrals, to the family and loved ones of detained folks, to the incredible nonprofits and individuals across the country who are representing people in their immigration cases, transporting people back home, and coordinating, this work doesn’t get done on our own.

Immigration advocacy is a wide-spread, multi-faceted organism, because that’s what it takes to fight back against the spread of xenophobic fascism. We are proud to hold down our corner of the work 💪🏽⛓️‍💥♥️

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