Our Impact

We are currently representing 540 asylum-seekers (FY23). Mabel Center attorneys’ legal strategy and approach has led to remarkable success in winning asylum for their clients. Our attorneys have secured asylum for the fourteen clients they have represented in court in the last two years — including Mabel, who presented her asylum case at the border tent courts, where grant rates are estimated at 0.1%.

In our first year as a 501c3 non-profit organization, founding attorneys have helped 130 mothers, fathers, and children fleeing persecution in Central America file their asylum applications with the Boston Immigration Court. Mabel Center is the only legal organization in the Boston area providing pro se services for emergency asylum filings. Other local organizations, unable to meet this critical need, rely on us to help these asylum-seekers, regularly referring these clients to us.

Mabel Center fights for women and children who have escaped violent persecution unimaginable to many. Mabel Center’s ultimate impact is achieved through helping clients fight for justice. Mabel Center’s advocacy gives women, who have been dehumanized, a renewed faith in justice, a sense that their lives matter, and the ability to work and live without fear of being separated from their families or returned to the danger they fled.

Mabel Center for Immigrant Justice FY23 Year in Review (English)
Mabel Center for Immigrant Justice FY23 Year in Review (Spanish)