Community Raises Money to Get Teen Out of Detention Center

The community of Durham, North Carolina has banded together to help out one of their own. Wildin David Guillen Acosta, a 19-year old illegal immigrant from Honduras, was arrested six months ago and sent to a detention center where he has remained while waiting for trial. His local community has raised the funds to purchase the immigration bond he needs to secure his temporary freedom. These are the kinds of freedoms and the stories of hope that US Immigration Bonds likes to report on.  

Acosta said he crossed the U.S. Mexico border illegally in 2014 to escape gang violence. When Acosta first arrived, he appeared in immigration court but did not return for fear of deportation; but ultimately, that failure to appear is what caused the deportation order to come into existence. Acosta’s immigration bond was set at $10,000 and he will remain in one of the Georgia detention centers until his immigration bond is processed.  

His local community set up a GoFundMe account and raised the money to pay for the immigration bond in only two days. Of course, this is not the end of the road for Wildin Acosta; he will still need to appear before a judge for his trail, which is still yet to be set. It is likely that Wildin will need an immigration lawyer because his case has become a lot more complex now that he has been arrested and spent time in a detention center.  

Some immigration officials are arguing that Wildin’s escape and appeal for asylum is warranted, because the gang violence in Honduras has been a state of crisis and many need the safety of the United States or else they face certain death.