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One year latter, the Pandemic has barely slowed us down

COVID-19 continues to have real impacts on our communities. If you need help, please reach out to one of these organizations offering help to vulnerable communities.

We’ve had a tremendous 2019 and are excited about what we’ll be able to do for our clients in 2020!

We shed some light on what it means to ask for asylum in the United States and what the process looks like

Every week we do our best to create possibilities for our clients, all at no cost.

The Ford Fund, our longest standing community partner, will again work with us to work for justice in the neighborhood.

We welcome everyone, regardless of where you are from, to come get help at our legal clinics.

In the last post, we looked at SWIRC’s past, where we’ve been and the immense need for quality free and low-cost legal services in Detroit. We are the only one doing this who serves everyone. Other providers have an area of law that they specialize in, or a particular demographic that they serve. Our clients are people who hear “no”

The Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center was founded in response to an urgent need in our community. When the then-currently largest provider of non-profit legal help shut down, they left few options in their place. Because of restrictions on federal funding, undocumented people had nowhere to turn for help. We wanted to offer an answer to that question of

Photo by Robert Bye via Unsplash.com   Not everything happens in the clinics. We represent many clients in Detroit area courts facing a variety of issues. This week Kevin, our principal attorney, was in court in Lincoln Park to stop the eviction of a single mother of three. Often the presence of an attorney makes all the difference in presenting