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Today, @MigrantFreedom launched the #Freedom100 Fund — an impact investment opportunity designed to reunite families separated by the U.S. immigration detention system by posting bond for 100 immigrants.

So let’s talk about the racist history of bonds shall we:
The history of immigration bonds in the US goes back to the late 1700s. Prior to federal immigration law, local & state laws were powerful regulators of the movement of people with criminal records, the poor, & the regulation of slavery/other policies of racial subordination.
For ex: the 1794 Massachusetts poor laws – a legacy of the English poor law system – imposed a penalty on any person who knowingly brought an indigent person into the Commonwealth and left them there.
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