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Support the Etowah Family Travel Fund!

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Support the Etowah Family Travel Fund!

Support the Etowah Family Travel Fund!

Adelante Alabama Worker Center
Adelante Alabama Worker Center
Adelante Alabama Worker Center
Adelante Alabama Worker Center
1 Campaign |
Gadsden, United States
$575 USD 11 backers
23% of $2,500 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

Help us bring families to Alabama to visit their loved ones and break the isolation at the Etowah immigrant detention center!

 

The Etowah County Detention Center is one of the most infamous and isolated facilities in the massive immigration detention system. Prolonged and indefinite detention is the norm at Etowah, where detainees are held for months or even years without court review while fighting their deportations. Many Etowah detainees are longtime U.S. residents whose families and home communities are hundreds or thousands of miles from Gadsden, AL, where the center is located. And many detainees’ family members cannot afford the high costs of travel to visit their loved ones, even when they are in dire need of emotional, medical, and other support.

 

Help us break the isolation at Etowah and reunite children, partners, parents and others with their loved ones behind bars:

 

  • $400 will purchase a round-trip plane ticket from the west coast for one family member
  • $300 will purchase a round-trip plane ticket from the New York metropolitan area for one family member
  • $150 will cover two nights of lodging in Alabama for one family member or group
  • $15 will cover round-trip ground transportation from Birmingham to Gadsden for one family member or group
  • $10 will purchase a few minutes of phone time (under the dramatically reduced rates recently approved by the FCC) for a family member who cannot make the trip
  • If you are interested in donating frequent flyer miles, please contact us at info@adelantealabama.org

 

We will be documenting fund recipients’ travel to Etowah and their experiences visiting detained family members—follow the #ShutDownEtowah campaign on social media for updates.

 

If you have a loved one detained at Etowah, please contact Adelante at 205-317-1481 or info@adelantealabama.org to inquire about applying for travel support from the Fund.

 

Learn more and take action: www.shutdownetowah.org

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