Migrant Support Collective

For week 4 of our 5-week fundraising drive, we’re excited to share another new project we’re launching soon: Data Transparency Initiative!

In addition to direct services, advocacy is a core pillar of Migrant Support Collective’s mission to dismantle systems of detention and criminalization that target LGBTQ+ migrants.

Through grassroots storytelling efforts, we will collect and amplify the experiences of trans and q***r people in detention. These stories are powerful tools for change: they expose the inhumanity of immigration detention and challenge narratives that erase LGBTQ+ voices from public discourse. 

We will work with movement partners to publish these stories in reports and social media campaigns that center the dignity and agency of detained migrants.

This initiative is designed to increase transparency and accountability, using data-driven insights to inform the public, support policy advocacy, and push for structural change.

➡️ We need your support to get this and other new programs off the ground. Donate today to support our advocacy work — link in bio!

For week 4 of our 5-week fundraising drive, we’re excited to share one of our new pilot programs launching this year: Art as Advocacy!

The Art as Advocacy Program empowers individuals in immigration detention to create and share original artwork and personal narratives. This program responds to the cultural erasure and emotional isolation of detention by positioning creativity as a powerful form of resistance.

Art becomes both testimony and vision—exposing the lived realities of detention while affirming the humanity, dreams, and resilience of those inside.

💡Interested in applying or volunteering? Visit our website: migrantsupportcollective.org/art-as-advocacy

➡️ We need your support to get this and other new programs off the ground. Donate today to support our advocacy work — link in bio!

One of the most common things we hear from people incarcerated by ICE is that they feel alone.

ICE detention, like all forms of incarceration, is designed to make people feel isolated.

Having a pen pal might sound like a small thing. But for someone who has virtually no contact with the outside world, it can be life-changing.

Migrant Support Collective is building up our capacity to launch a pen pal program – but we need your help in order to make it happen.

➡️ Help us make it happen by donating today (link in bio)

For week 3 of our 5-week fundraising drive, we’re featuring one of our programs that will be coming soon: Pen Pals!

One of the biggest pieces of feedback that we’ve received from folks in detention, as well as their social workers and legal advocates, is that detention makes it near impossible to meet one of the most basic human needs: connection with community.

✍️ While having a pen pal might sound like a small thing, for someone who is detained, it is sometimes one of the only connections you have to the outside world.

➡️ Interested in volunteering as a pen pal once we roll the program out? Sign up for our email list on our website to stay updated (link in bio)!