Hello everyone, my name is Angy and I’m here today to try to raise funds for my family. Because of ICE operations and with them terrorizing our community, including worksites, my husband has not been able to work. He had been the main provider for our family up until December 2025. He was working all day, every day, sun up to sun down before this all started. It gave me the opportunity to work minimally, just enough to maintain health insurance for us. It gave me the opportunity to spend most of my time at home raising our 1-year-old son while also being a college student. We’re just a regular, working-class family. Our life has been flipped upside down, to say the least. We just bought our first home in 2025 and spent a majority of our savings on closing and moving costs, not knowing that this is the situation we’d find ourselves in just a few months later. All of our bills and living costs have always been paid on time. We’re responsible and we live a humble lifestyle. My paychecks alone just aren’t enough. I’ve been picking up extra hours where they’re available, working days, evenings, and night shifts. Doing what I can to take on the financial responsibility for my family, but I feel like I’m drowning. 

I feel shame and embarrassment asking for help, but all I can think of are my son's big brown eyes looking up at me. I write this with a knot in my throat, but I don’t have time to cry. I pray and thank God every day that my family is alive and healthy. I pray that I don’t get stopped by ICE and that I get to come home to my baby. I pray that I don’t get stopped by ICE with my baby in the car because I don’t have proof of citizenship for him (he is a citizen), and I pray they never ever try to take him. I pray they never show up to my door and bust it in. I just want things to be normal again and have our life back. I want us to be able to go grocery shopping without being on high alert or looking over our shoulder. I want to be able to grab the mail without triple-checking for suspicious cars.

My mind is constantly spinning. I hate living like this.

If you made it this far, THANK YOU. Thank you for “listening” to me vent. And if you could help us with even a dollar or two, it’d go a long way and would mean more to me than you’ll ever know. I know it’s a hard time for everyone right now and there are people who are struggling even more. Even a share helps! I’m counting my blessings every chance I get and am so grateful that we’re alive and healthy.

Thank you