New York lawmakers arrested for blocking Ice access to federal building | New York
New York deputies, immigrant rights activists and religious leaders were arrested on Thursday in protests in and outside the complex in the Lower Manhattan, where the Federal officials routinely detained immigrants on the anti -immigrant agenda of the Trump administration.
At least 70 demonstrators organized a direct action protest to prevent access to the underground garage used by immigration and Customs Protection (ICE) to carry people arrested by the agency. The nature of the protest encouraged people living in front of the New York Police Department (NYPD) in front of the access ramp.
Others who protested were arrested by the FBI and the Migration Court, as well as the Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) – Ice Main Agency – Federal Officers in the Federal Building, including a series of facilities, including offices.
Inside, 11 elected officials were detained after demanding to see the conditions within the ice entrance facility on the 10th floor of the building, which led to reports that have recently been ill -treated.
Among them, New York City controller Brad Lander, who was previously arrested by masked federal agents in June, provoked the turmoil and objections of New York Governor Kathy Hochul. Lander was a candidate for the Mayor of the Democratic Party this year, but Zohran Mamdani, the last primary winner, came together to remove it.
In recent months, breaking norms emerged outside the Ice immigrant court and arrested people in the corridors as they leave the hearings in small courtrooms.
Tony Simone, a New York State Representative, who was arrested in the protest, said, iz We will go back here again and again, and encouraged other officials to rely on the aggressive migration policies of the administration. “Ice is not welcome in our state,” he added.
In a statement responding to protests, DHS spokesman Tricia McLughlin said that Lander and other politicians took a stunt to get 15 minutes of fame while endangering DHS staff and prisoners ”.
“As a result of the chaos caused by the federal protective service called NYPD, McLughlin said that NYPD is caused by the federal preventive service, Mc said the local police and federal law enforcement officers arrested 71 agitators and shelter politicians, and that New York’s local law enforcement officers had to limit the cooperation with Federal immigration.
In the statement, McLAughlin, Holded immigrants In the ice purchase facility of being a gang member with Fentanyl or Have a weapon.
“Brad Lander’s physical and rhetoric is the obsession of attacking the bold male and law enforcement officers,“ he said.
Outside, dozens of protesters, 26 Federal Plaza complex, the only entry and exit for official vehicles used by the ICE used by the garage to block the garage when they came together with signs and posters.
While the protesters sat down and cheered a few meters away from the garage entrance, NYPD officers came and ordered them to disintegrate.
When the protesters rejected, civil servants, including members of the controversial strategic intervention group, were moved to arrest them. New York City public defender Jumaane Williams was the first detained from the outside show.
Among the others arrested near the garage were Tiffany Cabán and Sandy Nurse and the State Assembly Member Phara Soufrant Forrest.
The police pointed to the people who continued to sit, then raised some of them, and continued to chant them with zipper vineyards. The protesters were later moved and lined up before they were placed in a police van.
The state senators Julia Salazar, Jabari Brisport and Gustavo Rivera and state representatives Jessica González-Rojas, Marcela Mitaynes, Emily Gallagher, Claire Valdez, Tony Simone, Robert Carroll and Steven Raga were arrested. 11, including Lander, was accused of a federal misdemeanor to prevent corridors, and was later released with a date to appear in court.
“To be open, ice should be lifted, Bris Brisport said. When the deputies demanded to enter the ice entry facility, the authorities announced that they squeezed the doors and added parcel band on the windows to prevent politicians from seeing inside.
Cabán said: “As an elected official, it is my duty to protect my components from persecution and violence. Ice is cruel and violent.
He wanted to remove the ice and said that the federal executive officers were detained and sent people to “kidnapping my neighbors”, “non -snow -free detention camps”. He also called for all the bills that prohibit local and state institutions to help federal immigration sanctions to pass the proposed legislation, including New York.
“Ice terrorized more than 3,000 New York this year, kidnapped them when they tried to participate in court dates and immigration controls this year, and under inhuman conditions, the necessary process without contacting the drug, clothes changes, adequate foods, beds or the outside world,” he said.
