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On Tuesday evening, Foley Square was packed from end to end with New Yorkers protesting the arrests of immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The rally took place just across the street from 290 Broadway and 26 Federal Plaza, which both house federal immigration courts, and where immigrants in recent weeks have been snatched by ICE agents and held incommunicado for several days after they've come for routine immigration check-ins.
In front of 26 Federal Plaza and 290 Broadway, NYPD officers in riot gear stood guard, a day after Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said they would have "no tolerance for people blocking entrances to buildings, or blocking driveways, or blocking cars from moving."
Speaking to the crowd, Councilmember Shahana Hanif, the daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants, called out the direct complicity of Mayor Adams and his administration with the Trump deportation regime—pushing to reopen an ICE office on Rikers Island, leaking sealed arrest records of immigrants, and railing against New York's sanctuary laws.