Dear Friend of PAIR,

As the year comes to a close, thank you for being part of our pro bono community.

Big appreciation to many of you who have:

• Taken on a full representation asylum case;

• Prepared and filed asylum applications and work authorization applications for clients on a limited scope basis;

• Supported our detention team with conducting intakes and giving Credible Fear Interview (CFI)/Reasonable Fear Interview (RFI) preps;

• Assisted with interpretation and translation at different stages of a client's asylum case;

• Bolstered cases by researching country conditions evidence, and/or being an expert;

• Collaborated with me to refer and place full representation asylum cases with your peers;



• Attended one of our ten trainings given over this past calendar year, facilitated by my colleagues who are truly some of the best in the field

May these last weeks of the year bring relative ease to us all—so we may be re-fortified for all that lies ahead in 2024, including this critical, collective work.

This all is simply not possible with you—thank you for your support of PAIR and our clients this past year!

Melanie

Pro Bono Intakers Needed!

We are looking for Spanish, Portuguese, and/or French-speaking attorneys to join us in conducting intakes of ICE-detained individuals at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility in Plymouth, MA. Our visits are twice per month on Wednesday afternoons. If you are interested, please email Omairy Martinez at omartinez@pairproject.org.

Available Pro Bono Cases

To read the longer case abstract for each the cases below, please click here.

If you are an attorney and are interested in taking on one of the below cases, please email me at mgleason@pairproject.org.

• Asylum (Immigration Court): AB (Mauritania) is a 28-year-old man who fears returning to his country due to the persecution of his ethnic group, viewed as the lowest caste where de facto slavery continues to exist.

• Asylum (Asylum Office): GJ (Haiti) is a 35-year-old man who fled due to threats and violence he received as a result of being a multimedia and investigative journalist.

• Asylum (Asylum Office): AB (Nicaragua) is a 58-year-old man who who has opposed Nicaragua's current government since the wave of protests in 2018, and was paroled into the US as one of the political prisoners who were stripped of their nationality.

• Asylum (Immigration Court): BB (Mauritania) is a 40-year-old man who fears returning because of persecution by the Mauritanian police due to his role as an activist, his race, and ethnicity, in which enslavement continues to exist.

• Asylum (Immigration Court): AB (Guinea) is a 33-year-old woman who has experienced severe violence, and whose social justice activism has made her a target of the Guinean government.

Pro Bono Resources