The Macomb Immigrant Service Center works constantly to help non-English-speaking residents of Macomb county gain the new language, life-skills, knowledge of workplace rights, health and safety, financial investments and social integration needed to realize the American dream. What began as a coalition of volunteers in 2009 has grown into year-round English Language and Civics and Citizenship classes — as well as federally authorized immigration counseling — to all adults and children in need.

In these days of great uncertainty and unrest among immigrant communities, MISC staff are working overtime to offer the low-cost and pro bono legal counseling, immigration support and deportation defense to those in need. Members of our staff (and MISC itself) are authorized by the U.S. Department of Justice paperwork as accredited representatives in document submission, interviews and at hearings in Detroit Immigration Court.

Always, service and class tuition fees are low cost. Never is a person turned away for inability to pay.

At a more personal level, translators serve as liaisons between parents and local public schools and show up free of charge when a Spanish-speaking parents walks into a school.