Overview
- About two dozen protesters entered the Trump Tower lobby around 1 p.m., chanting 'Bring them back! Bring them home!'
- NYPD officers issued multiple audio warnings, followed by the zip-tie handcuffing of 24 demonstrators for refusing to disperse
- The crowd consisted largely of older activists calling for the release of deported migrants and U.S. citizens held at El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison
- Authorities confirmed that no charges were immediately filed against the arrested protesters
- The Trump Tower demonstration is the latest in a wave of nationwide protests against President Trump's immigration policies, coming after February's 'Day Without Immigrants' strike and recent ICE raids in Los Angeles