Police Arrest at Least 11 Elected Officials During Sit-in at Federal Plaza in Manhattan

Brad Lander among elected NY officials arrested protesting at Manhattan immigration holding facility

The officials — including the city’s fiscal watchdog and state lawmakers — were among 77 people detained during protests at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan.

Arrests made in anti-ICE protest at immigration holding facility

Eleven officials were detained inside the government’s 26 Federal Plaza building

New York Democratic Politicians Arrested During Protest At Immigration Jail

About a dozen New York state and local elected officials were arrested on Thursday during protests at a Manhattan building where US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents operate holding cells cited by a federal judge for inhumane conditions.

New York lawmakers arrested for blocking Ice access to federal building

Arrests include 11 city officials who had demanded to see the conditions of an Ice intake facility on the 10th floorNew York lawmakers, immigrants’ rights activists and religious leaders were arrested on Thursday at protests both inside and outside the complex in lower Manhattan where federal officials have been routinely detaining immigrants amid the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda.At least 70 demonstrators staged a direct-action…

Elected officials among dozens of protesters arrested at a Manhattan immigration holding facility

More than a dozen elected officials have been arrested while protesting conditions at a New York City immigration holding facility where a federal judge extended a court order requiring the government to shape up its treatment of detainees

Police arrest at least 11 elected officials during sit-in at Federal Plaza in Manhattan

At least 11 elected officials have been arrested at a sit-in protesting against ICE outside Federal Plaza in Manhattan, according to police.