Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center

Every day in our community, immigrants are forced to navigate one of the most complex legal systems in the country - alone. When someone cannot afford a lawyer in immigration court, the consequences are devastating: detention without answers, separation from their children, the threat of deportation back to danger, and the loss of everything they’ve built.

That is where PIRC steps in. For more than 30 years, born out of grassroots action and community solidarity, PIRC has provided free, high-quality legal services so immigrants can find safety, stay with their families, and pursue a life of safety and opportunity.

Never before has the need been so great. The number of immigrants in our community facing detention, deportation, and loss of status is rising. Without legal representation, their chances of staying safe drop dramatically.

But with support, they don’t have to face this alone.

Your support does not simply fund legal services. Your support defends people’s lives, families, and futures. Behind every case is a person—a parent, a teenager, a survivor, a neighbor—whose life is changed because someone stepped in to help.

When you give to PIRC during the Extraordinary Give, you:

• Keep families together.

• Ensure survivors of violence have someone fighting for their safety.

• Give detained immigrants a lifeline.

• Protect the rights and humanity of your immigrant neighbors.

This is how you show up for your community. This is how you defend justice.

Learn more about the South Central Pennsylvania Rapid Response Team, providing support to individuals and families impacted by ICE enforcement in Lancaster, York, Adams, Franklin and Dauphin counties.

ABOUT: PIRC is a nonprofit made up of a team of committed and passionate advocates serving immigrants in Lancaster and surrounding counties who are:

• Fighting to stabilize their immigration status so they can remain with their families, find work, and move toward a secure future.
• Facing deportation, where every hearing could determine whether they stay with their children or are forced to leave the U.S.
• Survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking who need legal protection to escape abuse and rebuild safely.
• Detained by ICE, cut off from their loved ones, and in urgent need of answers, advocacy, and hope.