"City Comptroller Brad Lander and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams were among over a dozen city and state elected officials who federal agents arrested on Thursday afternoon in and around federal immigration courts in Lower Manhattan. Lander was arrested by Department of Homeland Security agents, along with a group of nine other elected officials, after sitting in a hallway with a banner outside the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza lockup, where DHS has been holding undocumented immigrants it has detained. The officials unfurled the banner after demanding access to the holding cells and being forcefully denied entry by DHS agents."
"According to Lander's office, the feds also arrested state Sens. Julia Salazar (D-Brooklyn) and Jabari Birsport (D-Brooklyn) as well as Assembly Members Marcela Mitaynes (D-Brooklyn), Tony Simone (D-Manhattan), Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas (D-Queens), Clare Valdez (D-Queens), Robert Carroll (D-Brooklyn), Emily Gallagher (D-Brooklyn), and Steven Raga (D-Queens)."
More than a dozen city and state elected officials were arrested in and around federal immigration courts in Lower Manhattan during protests. Department of Homeland Security agents arrested City Comptroller Brad Lander and nine other officials after they sat in a hallway with a banner outside the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, a lockup where DHS holds undocumented immigrants. The officials unfurled the banner after demanding access to the holding cells and being denied entry by DHS agents. NYPD officers arrested another group of elected officials and activists outside the facility for attempting to block its driveway. Arrested officials included state Sens. Julia Salazar and Jabari Birsport and multiple Assembly and City Council members. Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and colleagues acted in nonviolent civil disobedience to demand oversight of ICE's detention practices.
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