Support Families Impacted by ICE

BRING OLIVIA HOME FROM DILLEY

Project Relief Maine has been fighting for Olivia and her family since November 2025. Without our support, this Congolese family and many others would have already been deported.

While we helped secure the release of Olivia’s mother and siblings from the Dilley detention center, ICE continues to hold Olivia. 19-year-old Olivia has now been detained for five months.

“Another day passes, another night comes, and sometimes I feel that this nightmare is not going to end.”

Olivia, as told to The Guardian

Read her story:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/day-in-the-life-19-year-old-ice-detention

Olivia should be home with her family, continuing her education and working toward becoming a nurse’s assistant. Instead, she is deeply depressed, unable to sleep, scarred by shackles, without her eyeglasses, and has lost 20 pounds.

“At night, when no one is paying attention, everyone is asleep, that’s when I can cry.”

Olivia, as told to The Guardian

Hear her story from Ms. Rachel:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXHOgogCYUN/?igsh=dWphYmw3emo3aGs2

Let’s bring her home.

OLIVIA HAS NO HOME TO RETURN TO

Olivia’s family did not enter this country illegally. They came seeking asylum. Despite surviving unimaginable trauma, their case was denied, and the entire family was detained.

After four months in the Dilley detention center, they lost everything. Their apartment was cleared out. Their belongings are gone.

Now released, Olivia’s mother and teenage siblings are living in a friend’s spare room. They cannot secure housing because DHS canceled the mother’s work permit.

We must make sure Olivia has a home to return to.

We are raising $20,000 to cover six months of rent and essential needs so this family can reunite and begin to heal together.

ABOUT PROJECT RELIEF MAINE

Project Relief Maine is a mutual aid group. Since 2019, we have supported immigrant and Black communities across Maine.

We are on the frontlines, fighting systemic racism, resisting ICE, and protecting families. We are young Black immigrant organizers working entirely as volunteers.

We show up with courage and the determination to never leave our people behind.

Please stand with us.

WHAT WE DO

Alert the community to ICE activity

Reunite families after detention and stop deportations

Provide legal support and pay bond to bring people home

Shelter adults and children with nowhere else to go

Deliver groceries to elders and unhoused neighbors

Prevent evictions

Push back against white supremacist threats

We show up because we know what it means to be forgotten.

This is resistance. This is love.

IMPACT

Fighting for those abducted by ICE

Since March 2025, we have hired lawyers and paid bond for immigrants detained by ICE. Without rapid intervention, many would have been deported or left in detention for months or years.

Fighting for families left behind

We cover rent, groceries, baby supplies, transportation, and other essentials.

When ICE detained a father, leaving behind a mother and her two-month-old baby, we covered four months of rent and partnered with Coffee By Design to mobilize community support.

Standing up for community

Our mutual aid is direct, fast, and rooted in love.

THANK YOU

Your donations make this work possible. More than 10,000 donations have raised over $600,000, directly supporting legal defense and urgent community needs.

This is our community fund.

Donations are community contributions and are not tax deductible.

Please consider becoming a monthly donor to sustain this work.