Brighten her day with a note of warm wishes.


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[[link removed]]Dear John,

BIG news: Kelly Gonzalez Aguilar, a 24-year asylum-seeker who needlessly spent
three birthdays in the U.S. behind bars, has been freed from ICE detention. Please join us and celebrate Kelly’s freedom by sending her a note with warm
wishes!
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Amnesty supporters like you helped make her freedom possible: together, we and
our coalition partners drove over 80,000 emails, letters, faxes, and petition
signatures to ICE. Additionally, our advocacy staff on the Hill — along with
Amnesty members like you kept the pressure up on ICE through engagement with
your legislators. And we won.

Kelly is a transgender woman who fled Honduras at twelve years old, seeking
safety. After she arrived in the United States seeking protection, ICE detained
her in August 2017.

She had been locked up for over 1,000 days. But after immense pressure from Amnesty, TransLatin@ Coalition, American
Friends Service Committee, National Immigrant Justice Center and other coalition
partners — she is free!

This is especially heartening because Kelly had been terrified about contracting
COVID-19 in detention, where inadequate measures are taken by authorities to
protect detainees and staff from the virus.

In the spring, she told Amnesty campaigners, “ Our lives are in danger because there are people here who tested positive for
the COVID‐19 virus and there is nothing we can do. More detainees keep coming
and going. This is a time bomb for our lives. We pray that someone will do
something. ”

You — and thousands of Amnesty supporters — helped answer Kelly’s prayers.

Let’s help Kelly celebrate! Send Kelly your best wishes now.
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With you by our side, our team will continue our efforts standing up for
asylum-seekers unjustly detained by ICE. Here’s to future wins ahead!

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[[link removed]]Sincerely,


Billie Hirsch

Director of Online Engagement
Amnesty International USA

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