On Wednesday night in Lower Manhattan, the NYPD arrested dozens of protesters who were attempting to block the path of two vans that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were using to transport people they had recently detained.
Earlier that day, masked ICE agents arrested migrants as they appeared for their check-ins with the agency at 26 Federal Plaza, and while they made appearances in immigration court at 201 Varick Street, according to reporters from the CITY, who witnessed some of the arrests. A Queens pastor was also arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers as they attempted to observe one of the arrests at Federal Plaza.
On Varick Street, protesters gathered after word of the arrests spread, and by 8 p.m., they had stationed themselves outside of a loading dock, waiting for ICE to bring out the migrants they had arrested earlier that day. A large group of police looked on, including federal immigration enforcement officers from the Department of Homeland Security, the NYPD, and members of the NYPD's Strategic Response Group.
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