Wildin Acosta, a migrant Honduran teenager jailed in the US. (Photo: Alerta Migratoria NC)., All rights reserved
An immigration judge finally ceded to community demands and is allowing high schooler Wildin Acosta to be released from the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia upon receipt of a $10,000 bond. Wildin’s teachers, friends, and concerned persons quickly amassed the sum and eagerly await his exit from private prison corporation CCA’s facility, where he has been held for the past eight months.
“Once again it has been shown that it makes a difference when we organize ourselves to stop these deportations. It means that we as an active community are stronger than any anti-immigrant law or policy,” said Viridiana Martínez, a leader of AlertaMigratoriaNC, which spearheaded the fight to free Wildin.
