[5] During the Donald Trump administration, Make the Road New York made national headlines for its work to end major banks’ financing of private prisons and immigrant detention centers[6] and for leading protests at JFK Airport after the administration's January 27, 2017, announcement of an executive order suspending entry to refugees and to citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries.
[9] There are sister Make the Road organizations[10] in Connecticut,[11] New Jersey,[12] Pennsylvania,[13] and Nevada.
"[15] It helped community members organize in order to change the public conversation about welfare and improving policy.
[16] The Latin American Integration Center (LAIC), founded in 1992 in Jackson Heights, Queens, provided support to Latin American immigrants in the form of community organizing, adult education, and citizenship assistance.
[17] Make the Road New York opened a Long Island office in Brentwood in 2012 to serve Nassau and Suffolk Counties’ growing immigrant communities.