Thread by @NewSanctuaryNYC

💥Watch this familyreunion if you want to smile and cry💥

1/In the midst this pandemic our Friends in detention live in more fear than those of us sheltering in our homes. Because of your donations, we were able to bond out our Friend yesterday.

#FreeThemAll

2/His words, after being freed from immigration detention

"I would like to share that being in jail and now being free for me was an experience. I learned to value my family more and more. I learned to love my family more and more. I have no words to explain how content I feel."

3/ "I just have to give thanks to the Most High and to New Sanctuary Coalition, thank you to Ambien and to @JaniceGinger1 & to all the members of New Sanctuary Coalition for giving me strength to continue fighting." #FreeThemAll

4/"To see my family after 9 months of worry in prison in Essex County, NJ, to hug & hold my family, to see the joy in the faces of my daughters, my wife, my mother, all my loved ones, was the best gift that I could possibly receive in the middle of this pandemic. #FreeThemAll

5/To be here to help my daughters w/ their homework, & economically as well, to give strength & love to my wife after nine months of being alone, my family with such anxiety, knowing that I could be deported - & for the situation in Honduras, that I could be assassinated - WOW."

6/"To be with my family is the best thing that could have happened to me in 2020. I would like to encourage anyone who is in the same situation that I was just in: we keep fighting, we don’t give up." #FreeThemAll #AbolishICE

7/We all deserve a second chance in life. Don’t lose faith.
#FreeThemAll #AbolishICE #COVID19

8/"For those who remain detained in the middle of this pandemic, keep praying, keep asking God to get you out of there, keep asking that he touch the heart of @ICEgov because ICE has the power to release you from there and ensure that you don’t die in that cage." #FreeThemAll

9/"I was just inside (detention), & I could see how many infected people there are inside that cage. Please, ICE supervisors, ICE bosses, use your humanitarian power & free all those who you can free so they do not have to die in this cage of death." #FreeThemAll #COVID19

10/"With all my heart, I say this as a father, the same as you all, ICE officers, who have children, who have wives, who have parents, who have hearts. Please, enough separating of families. And God bless you all as well." #FreeThemAll #familiesbelongtogether

The NSC team Is grateful to have incredible allies. Yesterday, 2 humans were freed through the NSC L.I.F.E. Bond Fund. We have raised over $19K for that fund in the past two days based on a matched donation that we surpassed!

newsanctuarynyc.org/life_bond_fund