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October 1, 2007

IT'S OFFICIAL! MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK!

By  Make the Road New York Staff / Make the Road New York


Latin  American Integration  Center and Make the Road by Walking celebrated the announcement of their merger at SEIU 32BJ's Auditorium on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 to a packed audience. Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, joined us to celebrate the event. The new organization, Make the Road New York, has four locations in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, and will combine:

  • democratic accountability to low-income people;
  • an innovative mix of strategies to confront inequality and economic injustice; and
  • deep and active community roots.


Make the Road New York honored Joseph Hansen, President of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Roberta Kaplan, Partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Executive Director at the Drum Major Institute. We thank all of our friends and allies for your support throughout the years and look forward to working with you as we move in to this important next phase in our organization’s development.


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On March 18, 2013, Mayor Bloomberg signed new legislation to stop federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from using NYC’s criminal justice system to deport thousands of New Yorkers.

Building on legislation we helped to win just over a year ago, Local Laws 21 and 22 prohibit not only the Department of Correction but now also the NYPD from spending millions of city taxpayer dollars to hold individuals on behalf of ICE agents for detention and deportation. Each year, thousands of New York families will stay together who would otherwise have been torn apart by overly aggressive, indiscriminate immigration enforcement.

At a moment when the country is debating immigration reform, with these laws, New York City sends a clear message to Washington that tearing apart thousands of immigrant families is bad policy.

With your support, we look forward to winning national reform that keeps families together. We thank our partners at the Center for Popular Democracy, the Cardozo Immigration Justice Clinic and the bills’ sponsors, NYC Council Speaker Quinn and Council Member Mark-Viverito, for their courageous leadership.


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