Comptroller Brad Lander and greater than a dozen different native elected officers have been arrested Thursday afternoon after demanding to supervise a controversial detention heart at Immigration Court docket in downtown Manhattan.
The leaders have been zip-tied and detained after demanding entry to the Tenth-floor holding cells which have develop into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention heart in 26 Federal Plaza. They have been trying to conduct oversight of the situations within the facility after a choose on Wednesday ordered feds to enhance the reportedly overcrowded and soiled situations on the website.
Along with Lander, the group included Assemblymembers Marcela Mitaynes, Julia Salazar, Emily Gallagher, Jessica González-Rojas, Claire Valdez, Tony Simone and Steven Raga and State Senators Jabari Brisport and Gustavo Rivera.
Arrests have been additionally ongoing outdoors the courthouse, with Division of Homeland Safety officers detaining Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Councilmembers Tiffany Caban and Sandy Nurse and Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest.
Lander was launched shortly after his arrest and it was anticipated all the opposite elected officers would promptly be launched, as effectively, as quickly as their arrests have been processed.
Salazar, Lander and González-Rojas got federal summonses on misdemeanor offenses associated to blocking entrances, foyers and corridors. All have been given a court docket date for Nov. 18.
Lander was beforehand arrested on the courthouse in June when accompanying immigrants out of their court docket proceedings.
“This afternoon I faced arrest alongside dozens of New Yorkers in a nonviolent civil disobedience to demand oversight of ICE’s inhumane detention practices,” Public Advocate Williams mentioned in a press release. “Even under this creeping authoritarianism regime, I expect to be released today to go home to my family, but the people we’re fighting for don’t have that privilege, as ICE disappears, and deports them.”
Initially Printed: September 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM EDT
