805 UNCOCUFund — Impacts of ICE Raids in the Past 4 Days

Dear Friends & Supporters,

This year felt as if we have lived a thousand lives. As Executive Director of 805UndocuFund, and as someone who comes from an immigrant family, I carry the weight of these past days and year deeply. The numbers are staggering, but what stays with me are the faces, the phone calls, the children waiting for parents who never came home. This level of enforcement violence is not accidental, it is intentional, and it is devastating entire communities in real time.

What gives me hope is our collective response. Community members are showing up for one another with courage, care, and refusal to be silent. Mutual aid, rapid response, and collective defense are acts of love and resistance. As we close this year, I am asking you to stand with our community. Your support allows us to act immediately, protect families, and ensure that no one is taken in silence or forgotten.

In solidarity,

In the past 4 days, nearly 3 out of every 4 kidnappings occurred in Santa Maria.This level of concentration cannot be explained away as “targeted enforcement.” It reflects systemic racial profiling, particularly against Latino and Indigenous migrant communities, including Mixtec and other Indigenous peoples.

This terror is not incidental — it is the intended outcome.

These actions undermine constitutional protections, violate due process, and impose collective punishment on entire communities. The psychological toll, trauma, chronic stress, fear, will last long after these raids end.

What we are witnessing is a coordinated assault on immigrant and Indigenous communities across the Central Coast designed to destabilize, intimidate, and silence.

But our communities are refusing to disappear.

As the year comes to a close, we are asking you to stand with families under siege. Your end-of-year gift allows us to respond in real time, protect lives, and ensure that no one is taken in silence.

Donate today. Stand with our community. Help reunite families.

Because this is not happening somewhere else.
It’s happening here. And together, we resist.

Bearing Witness: Our Community Disappeared

In response to this violence, 805UndocuFund volunteers created a countywide public art installation titled “Our Community Disappeared.”

Across sidewalks and streets, butterfly markers now stand where neighbors were taken.

One marker tells the story of a father detained at 5:30 a.m. after dropping off his wife at work, his car left behind, his children waiting hours for him to come home. A week later, the only trace of his disappearance was a butterfly.

The monarch butterfly, a symbol of migration and resilience marks these sites of harm and transforms them into spaces of remembrance, resistance, and healing. Each marker reads: “Your beloved neighbor was kidnapped here. Help or get help to reunite families now.”
Translated in English, Spanish, and Mixtec.

These markers exist so families know their loved ones are not forgotten and so communities cannot look away…

805Undocufund Board of Directors, 805Undocufund Staff, Oxnard College Fellows & Family Members