Help During the Pandemic

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.

2019 Annual Report

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

The Road to Asylum in the US

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

What’s Next for SWIRC

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” …

We’ve Come a Long Way

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 …

We show up for our clients

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 …