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 10 other elected officials. They were sitting in a hallway with a banner reading “NYers Against ICE” on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, which houses a DHS lockup for undocumented immigrants the agency has detained after their mandatory court hearings elsewhere in the building.
