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NYC Mayoral Candidate Lander Freed After ICE Arrest in Immigration Court

His brief detention highlights the Trump administration’s strategy of arresting opponents through aggressive immigration enforcement

Le contrôleur des finances de la ville de New York et candidat à la mairie, Brad Lander, lors de son arrestation dans un tribunal de Manhattan, le 17 juin.
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Overview

  • Brad Lander was handcuffed by masked ICE agents on June 17 while advocating for a migrant in a Manhattan immigration courtroom.
  • He spent several hours in federal custody before being released without any charges later that day.
  • Lander’s wife, Meg Barnette, denounced the arrest as inconsistent with the rule of law during a joint press briefing.
  • The detention follows the June 12 arrest of Democratic Senator Alex Padilla in Los Angeles under the same enforcement campaign.
  • ICE agents have conducted daily mass arrests of migrants in New York immigration courts for the past four weeks as part of President Trump’s deportation push.