Overview

• On August 2, ICE agents arrested 20-year-old South Korean student Yeonsoo Go and 59-year-old Peruvian asylum seeker Ketty immediately after their routine immigration hearings at Manhattan’s 26 Federal Plaza.
• Both detainees are being held on the building’s 10th floor in cells that lack showers, beds and hot food.
• The arrests follow a federal directive imposing daily detention quotas and revoking bond hearings, accelerating courthouse detentions without prior notice.
• Faith leaders and immigrant advocates rallied outside Federal Plaza to demand the release of those detained and to decry what they view as an erosion of due process.
• ICE and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment on the recent detentions.