Support Families Impacted by ICE

Project Relief Maine Community Fund

Urgent Call to Support Our Immigrant Communities

On January 14, 2026, It was announced that Portland and Lewiston, Maine will see a significant increase in ICE presence. As many of you know, Maine has a large immigrant community, especially in Lewiston and Portland. What we are witnessing across the country is deeply alarming. Immigrants are being targeted nationwide, and what we are seeing in places like Minnesota could happen here.

It already is.

Members of our community have already been abducted by ICE. Families are living in fear. Parents are afraid to leave their homes. Children are afraid their loved ones will not come back. This is not something happening somewhere else. This is happening here.

Your support is needed now more than ever.

The donations you make truly make a difference. They allow us to hire lawyers, post bail, purchase groceries, cover rent, and provide direct support to families and individuals in need. This is what mutual aid is all about.

Mutual aid is not charity. It is survival.

Across the country, immigrants continue to face ICE every single day. Families are being separated. People are being detained without warning. Every day, we are showing up to provide support, whether that is legal assistance, emergency funds, or helping families who have been left behind with nothing.

The need has not stopped. The fight is not over.

About the Community Fund

We are young Black immigrant organizers. We do not have institutional backing or wealthy donors behind us. What we have is community, courage, and the determination to never leave our people behind.

Since 2019, Project Relief Maine has been a support line for immigrant and Black communities across Maine. We are on the frontlines, fighting systemic racism, resisting ICE, and protecting families.

ICE has intensified its targeting of our immigrant neighbors. Since the beginning of March 2025, we have already hired lawyers for seven immigrants who were violently detained. Without legal support, they could have been left in detention for months or even years. Because of this fund, they now have representation and a chance to fight for their freedom.

But our work does not stop at hiring lawyers.

We have bailed out many immigrants and reunited them with their families. We have provided direct support because of your generosity. Your support has made it possible for families to come back together and rebuild.

These funds also allow us to post bail so people can return home, and to cover critical after support such as rent, groceries, baby supplies, transportation, and other essentials that families need to survive when a loved one is detained.

Earlier this year, when ICE detained a father and left behind a mother and her two month old baby with nothing, we acted immediately. We covered four months of rent so they would not lose their home. We partnered with Coffee By Design to rally community support.

We have sheltered more than 40 people, including children who had nowhere else to go. We have delivered groceries to elders and unhoused neighbors. 

We have prevented evictions. We have responded in real time to ICE raids, keeping our community informed, protected, and never alone. We have hired many lawyers and helped reunite families safely.

And we continue to show up every single day.

This Is Mutual Aid

This is mutual aid. Direct. Fast. Rooted in love. Led by our community.

Your donations go toward helping detained immigrants with bail, legal fees, and after support. They support families left behind with the essentials they need to survive. They help community members who are struggling. They sustain the capacity it takes for us to keep showing up in these urgent moments.

Your generosity makes all of this possible.

This is resistance. This is love. This is community. 

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

The fight is not over. Immigrants are still facing ICE every day, and we need your support now more than ever.

Thank you for standing with us.

This is our long standing Community Fund Campaign for Project Relief since 2020.

Please consider becoming a monthly donor to help us continue this work.