"Department of Homeland Security agents arrested 70 New Yorkers outside 26 Federal Plaza on Thursday afternoon, with an additional 12 elected officials arrested upstairs, after they had attempted to enter the building to assess the living conditions of immigrants detained there. Some of the electeds had made it past the doors, and came upstairs - only to be handcuffed moments later. Among the officials arrested include New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams, Assemblymember Emily Gallagher, Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas, Assemblymember Robert C. Carroll, State Sen. Jabari Brisport and Council member Sandy Nurse."
""I've been here more than a dozen times, and every single time I have seen a lawless abduction," said Comptroller Lander, while sitting cross-legged on the floor outside the elevators of the first floor of Federal Plaza. "I saw a woman who was eight months pregnant have her husband ripped from her arms, and what she said to my wife, she's sobbing in my wife's arms, was, 'Are they going to kill him?'""
Department of Homeland Security agents detained 70 New Yorkers outside 26 Federal Plaza and arrested 12 elected officials upstairs after those officials attempted to enter to assess the living conditions of immigrants held there. Some elected officials made it past the doors and were handcuffed moments later. Arrested officials included Comptroller Brad Lander, Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams, Assemblymembers Emily Gallagher, Jessica González-Rojas, Robert C. Carroll, State Sen. Jabari Brisport, and Council member Sandy Nurse. Comptroller Lander had been arrested in June while attempting to escort an immigrant from a court hearing. Doors to the courts were locked and manned with armed guards.
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