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Agents had previously used the tactic to arrest immigrants and place them in sped-up deportation proceedings. For the past few weeks however, they've just been arresting people at will.
Detainees had described "horrific" and unsanitary conditions, with dozens of people packed into a single room, little food, and scant access to attorneys.
Cat videos, “The Good Place,” and free Slurpies: these are the topics of conversation among federal agents between arrests in immigration court.
ICE is ramping up arrests in the city, as federal agents detain people with open immigration cases who would normally not be subject to detention.
"If he sees me out partying, he'll tell my mom back in Conakry that I'm a bandit!" said one concertgoer of another, his uncle.
Longtime immigration court observers say that federal agents working for ICE have created an unprecedented atmosphere of terror in their quest to deport as many New Yorkers as they can.
This was the third time Lander had been accompanying people to and from their immigration hearings.
After the fire truck pulled up to the federal building where more than 100 people are being held, a van of the sort ICE uses to transport detainees sped out past protesters.
Lander helped escort three families out of court and safely to the nearby subway station, even as ICE officers lingered nearby the courtrooms.
A family that was separated at the border was separated again by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday afternoon.
Y de qué pueden hacer los neoyorquinos para enfrentar a las autoridades de inmigración.