New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and FBI agents extracurricular national migration tribunal successful New York, June 17, 2025.
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New York City Comptroller and Democratic mayoral campaigner Brad Lander was arrested Tuesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents portion helium was escorting a suspect retired of immigration court.
"While escorting a suspect retired of migration tribunal astatine 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE," Lander's wife, Meg Barnette, wrote connected X.
"This is inactive developing, and our squad is monitoring the concern closely," Barnette wrote.
Video of the incidental posted online showed Lander extracurricular a courtroom astatine the city's main migration tribunal erstwhile helium is approached by officers, including immoderate wearing masks.
Lander repeatedly asked the officers to amusement him a judicial warrant earlier helium is handcuffed, per the video posted by Barnette.
The Department of Homeland Security said Lander was arrested for "assaulting instrumentality enforcement and impeding a national officer."
Lander was released from custody connected Tuesday afternoon, astir 4 hours aft his arrest.
Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that they were "continuing to analyse the actions involving" Lander. As of 5 p.m. ET, Lander had not been charged with a crime, however.
Lander, a campaigner successful adjacent week's Democratic superior for New York City mayor, was successful tribunal observing migration lawsuit proceedings, which helium has done astatine slightest 2 different times, Barnette said.
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The incidental comes days aft police handcuffed Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., aft helium was forcibly removed from a property league that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was holding in Los Angeles.
"If that is what the medication is going to bash to a United States legislator for having the authorization to simply inquire a question, ideate what they volition bash to immoderate American who dares to talk up," Padilla said during remarks from the Senate level connected Tuesday.
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is placed nether apprehension by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and FBI agents extracurricular national migration tribunal connected Tuesday, June 17, 2025, successful New York.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James condemned Lander's detention arsenic a "profoundly unacceptable" event.
"Arresting Comptroller Lander for the elemental enactment of lasting up for immigrants and their civilian rights is simply a shocking maltreatment of power," James said successful a statement.
She besides said it was a "grotesque escalation of tensions," and that the Trump administration's "rampant targeting of New Yorkers lone makes our communities little safe."
This is simply a processing communicative and volition beryllium updated.
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