August 28, 2025

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SAN DIEGO, CA — The Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) condemns the Trump administration’s new executive order abolishing cashless bail across the United States as a calculated assault on Black immigrant communities. This regressive policy reimposes the cruel regime of wealth-based pretrial detention and deepens the two-tiered justice system that incarcerates the poor while the affluent walk free. Research has long demonstrated that jurisdictions without cash bail do not experience increases in crime, and instead ensure fairer access to justice for low-income individuals.

“This executive order is a disgraceful, reactionary power grab that weaponizes the law against the poorest among us and is a potential violation of the Eighth Amendment due to the undermining of due process and presumption of innocence principles,” says Guerline Jozef, Executive Director of Haitian Bridge Alliance. “By reviving cash bail, the administration intentionally targets Black immigrant communities—denying them freedom and dignity while enriching the bail industry. We will resist this injustice at every level and continue to fight for a legal system that upholds the humanity of all people, regardless of their ZIP code or bank account.”

The Haitian Bridge Alliance stands in unwavering solidarity with all those criminalized by poverty and oppression. Our fight is for freedom—not just in name—but for every soul that dares to belong.

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ABOUT HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE

Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), also known as “The Bridge”, is a grassroots community organization that advocates for fair and humane immigration policies, foreign policy, and provides migrants and immigrants with humanitarian, legal, and social services, with a particular focus on Black migrants, the Haitian community, women and girls, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and survivors of torture and other human rights abuses. HBA also seeks to elevate the issues unique to Black migrants and build solidarity and a collective movement toward policy change. Anpil men chay pa lou (“Many hands make the load light”).
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