The Final Straw Radio aired an interview with Angel from ICE detention on their May 4th episode, please share!

On April 1, 2025, Angel was taken into ICE custody to face deportation to Chile after the end of hir federal prison sentence. Angel has since been deported and reunited with family in Chile, and you can continue to support hir – learn more at Angel’s support crew’s Instagram: @free.all.dykes and support the GoFundMe for supporting Angel through deportation and re-entry and rebuilding hir life in Chile.

“My name is Angel Espinosa Villegas. I’m a trans butch immigrant, life-long organizer who has lived in the US since I was 7 years old. I am currently locked up in Carswell Federal Medical Facility in Ft. Worth, Texas after pleading guilty to a politically overcharged case. I am facing deportation charges after my 18-month bid here in Carswell. I am in dire need of criminal immigration representation so that I may stay home, here, in Chicago with my lesbian partner and co-defendant, Rene. Otherwise, once deported, I will never be allowed to return. No return to my partner, no return to my dog Aukan, to my sister, to my family and closely-knitted community here in the US.  The conditions I’m under here in Carswell are too awful to mention, so it goes without mentioning that I only have you, my community reading this right now, as my only chance of beating this deportation case. I just want to return home, continue fighting for the liberation of our communities, and be able to marry my fiance Rene, while returning to my family l’ve fought tooth and nail my entire life to have. I have an incredible group of people fighting for us, but we need you. I need you. Please consider sharing my story, reaching out, donating, or whatever is in your capacity. I just want to stay home – I don’t want my family separated any further than it’s already been torn to shreds by the feds. Don’t let them tear us apart. I just want to go home, not be deported to a country where I may die simply because of who I am or my butchness, for what I look like. Thank you for reading this.” 
Printable support zine here: https://archive.org/details/freeangelimposed.
Venmo: Loba-Cabrona
Cashapp: $PunkWolfe2 

Read more about state repression of the uprising in Arkansas and these cases: How to Crush a Movement for Racial Justice and Little Rock police vehicle arson cases end with federal sentencing of four defendants.

Mujera Benjamin Lunga’ho, Renea Goddard, Cody Nowlin and Angel Espinosa-Villegas were all sentenced to time in federal prison related to the torching of Little Rock, AK police vehicles during the 2020 uprisings.

Mujera Benjamin Lunga’ho received a five and a half year sentence after pleading guilty to arson in August, 2023, and has been incarcerated since September 2021. Cody Nowlin and Angel Espinosa-Villegas were each sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty in September 2022 to possession of a molotov cocktail. Renea Goddard was also sentenced to 18 months after pleading guilty in September 2022 for conspiracy to possess a molotov cocktail. The three started their sentences in 2024.