In September of 2019, founding attorney Jill Seeber was working with asylum-seekers forced to wait in Mexico, until their cases in tent courts along the border, when she met Mabel. Mabel had survived severe torture and abuse in her Central American country at the hands of military officials. After seeking safety and refuge in the United States with her daughter, the U.S. government returned them to one of the most dangerous areas in Mexico under the unlawful “Remain in Mexico” policy. While waiting in Mexico, Mabel and her 6-year-old daughter were kidnapped and held for eleven days under excruciating conditions.
Three months later, co-founding attorneys Jill Seeber and Daniel Santiago represented Mabel and her daughter, who were both granted asylum from a tent court in Laredo and permitted to enter the United States, where they now live with loved ones. The courage and resilience Mabel embodied is the inspiration for the Mabel Center for Immigrant Justice, a nonprofit legal services organization that diligently and effectively fights to ensure that women and children fleeing violence and torture can find refuge in the United States.
Mabel Center founders developed the Family Detention Project within a legal services organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Through the two-year project, they helped 130 mothers, fathers, and children fleeing persecution in Central America file their asylum cases with the Boston Immigration Court. With the urgent need for free and experienced representation expanding — while its accessibility diminishes under increasingly onerous asylum laws and procedures — Mabel Center’s founding attorneys decided to use their experience and specialized knowledge to create an organization dedicated to the skillful and efficient representation of complex and urgent asylum cases and assisting pro se asylum seekers.
Company Details
- Employees
- 14
- Founded
- -
- Address
- 200 Portland Street,
- Industry
- Legal Services
- NAICS
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Legal ServicesOffices of NotariesOther Legal ServicesTitle Abstract and Settlement OfficesAll Other Legal Services
- Website
- http://www.mabelcenter.org
- Keywords
- immigrant rights, pro bono legal services, asylum, cultural competency, immigration, immigration law.
- HQ
- Boston, MA
- Competitors
- Northeast Justice Center, Immigrant Alliance for Justice and Equity, Project Citizenship, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), Immigration Justice Project, National Immigrant Justice Center, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), Skadden Foundation, Global Refuge, National Immigration Law Center.
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Mabel Center For Immigrant Justice's website is http://www.mabelcenter.org
Mabel Center For Immigrant Justice's LinkedIn profile is https://www.linkedin.com/company/mabelcenter
Mabel Center For Immigrant Justice has
14 employees.
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employees at Mabel Center For Immigrant Justice.
Mabel Center For Immigrant Justice's industry is
Legal Services
Mabel Center For Immigrant Justice's top competitors are
Northeast Justice Center,
Immigrant Alliance For Justice And Equity,
Project Citizenship,
U.s. Committee For Refugees And Immigrants (Uscri),
Immigration Justice Project,
National Immigrant Justice Center,
Kids In Need Of Defense (Kind),
Skadden Foundation,
Global Refuge,
National Immigration Law Center.
Mabel Center For Immigrant Justice's categories are Legal Services
Mabel Center For Immigrant Justice's founding year is 2020
