Envision Freedom Fund works in collaboration with impacted communities to dismantle the intertwined criminal legal and immigration systems that feed off each other to target and incarcerate people from low-income communities of color. With freedom as our guiding principle, we pay bonds to free people from immigration detention, support individuals as they land on their feet, and build the organizing power needed to end immigration detention and pretrial incarceration in New York State. Founded in 2015 as the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund (BCBF), our organization has been at the forefront of the fight for freedom. From 2015 to 2019, we were the largest community bail fund in the country, leveraging almost $5 million to free nearly 5,000 people from jail. In response to intensifying ICE raids and enforcement under the first Trump administration, in 2018 we transitioned to paying immigration bonds and in 2020, we began to couple this work with pre- and post-release services and community building programming. Today, we are the largest immigration bond fund in the country, and the only bond fund in New York State — we’ve paid over $8.8 million to free over 1,000 of our immigrant neighbors, and counting.