New York Officials Arrested While Conducting Resistance Theater at ICE Facility

By streiff | 10:57 AM on September 19, 2025

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Department of Homeland Security arrested 71 people, including 15 elected officials (all Democrats), for illegally blocking entrances to a federal building in Lower Manhattan and obstructing law enforcement. The incident began as 11 elected officials and dozens of sycophants forced their way onto an off-limits floor containing illegals awaiting due process. They refused to leave, which led to an hour-long standoff as the trespassers banged on the locked doors. Eventually, they sat down to chant and sing, because of course they did, before they were hauled off in zip ties.


Allegedly, the demonstrators were “attempting to conduct oversight and confirm ICE compliance with [a] new court order requiring humane conditions for people detained at the facility.” It seems that no one told them that local officials have no right to conduct inspections or oversight in federal buildings, and if they spent as much time trying to make New York safe and clean as they devote to making it into a Third World crap hole, everyone would be happier.

Apparently, interfering with Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations at this building has become something of a fetish for New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who is probably running for something, but I couldn’t be bothered to try to find out. This is his second arrest at this location. His arrest drew this response from DHS spokeswoman Trish McLaughlin, “Another day, another sanctuary politician pulling a stunt in attempt to get their 15 minutes of fame while endangering DHS personnel and detainees. Here are the facts: Brad Lander showed up to 26 Federal Plaza unannounced with agitators and media and proceeded to obstruct law enforcement and cause a scene. He yelled inside the building that he was ‘not leaving’ until detainees were ‘released.”




Video shows Brad Lander, NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate, being arrested by ICE agents

According to Lander, “Not only would they not let us in, they duct-taped and wire-tied the door in what is surely a building violation. When they refused, we made clear we weren’t leaving, and we were then arrested and detained by Federal Protective Service officers from the Department of Homeland Security." You know what else is a building violation? Entering off-limits areas, sitting in the hallways beating pots and pans, and blocking building exits and entrances.
Among the participants were Comptroller Brad Lander, along with state Senators Jabari Brisport, Gustavo Rivera, and Julia Salazar, and Assemblymembers Robert Carroll, Emily Gallagher, Jessica Gonzalez Rojas, Marcela Mitaynes, Steve Raga, Tony Simone, and Claire Valdez. Also arrested while blocking the parking garage were Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and City Council members Sandy Nurse and Tiffany Cabán.
I'm sure this kind of activity plays well with the far left in New York now and will probably play even better when crypto-Communist Zohran Mamdani takes charge. It will not play that well at the polls. While Trump is pushing several 80-20 issues, two of which are closing the border to illegal immigration and deporting illegals.


By refusing to charge the demonstrators with any number of federal felonies, releasing them has shown NYC and the rest of the country just how ineffectual and flaccid their resistance is.

New York Officials Arrested While Conducting Resistance Theater at ICE Facility – RedState