Indiana AID (Assistance to Immigrants in Detention) is an all-volunteer organization that supports individuals detained by ICE in various ways, from witnessing their experiences, offering information, providing resources for them and their families, visiting them in detention, holding vigils and demonstrations, and educating our community. One of their groups travels to the Clay County jail every month for spiritual care. They offer to pair every immigrant detained there with a visitation partner for virtual visits, and so much more.
The Indianapolis Liberation Center is a proud supporter of and partner with Indiana AID. We encourage all of our members and supporters to help advance their important mission. In addition to reading through their monthly newsletters below, you can contact, support, and learn more about them via:
- phone (voicemail only): 317-721-4044
- IndianaAID.org
“The View Inside:” Indiana AID’s Newsletter
- “La Vista Interna” (Vol 12): Seguir Presente Durante Incertidumbre
- “The inside view” (Vol 12): Remaining present in the midst of uncertainty
- “La vista interna” (Vol 11): Los impactos de inmigrantes en los EE.UU.
- “The inside view” (Vol 11): The impacts of Immigrants in the U.S.
- “The inside view” (vol. 10): Films, testimony, and poetry on ICE
- “The inside view” (vol. 9): Hope from Indiana Assistance to Immigrants in Detention
- “The inside view” (vol. 8): Poetry and progress for Indiana Immigrant Detention Assistance
- “The inside view” (Vol 7): A real-life “inside view”
How Indiana AID Started
Indiana AID was formed in 2019 when three individuals (a lawyer, a pastor, and a grad student) came together out of their mutual concern over the fact that there was no program in Indiana to support the immigrants who were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in our state. We began communicating with ICE about our interest in visiting the facility in early 2020, but our plans were canceled when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived and all in-person visitation was shut down. For the next two years, we slowed down our operations until a friend from the Interfaith Coalition of Detained Immigrants (ICDI) showed us how we could run a virtual visitation program at the jail, which did not require an in-person visit or even ICE permission. We set up such a virtual program at the end of 2021 and have been visiting with and assisting immigrants in the jail ever since.