How 200 New Yorkers Foiled an ICE Raid Before It Even Began
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New Yorkers thwarted an ICE raid before it could begin. The incident highlights the challenges ICE will face in the city

For the second time in just over a month, a large-scale raid by dozens of immigration agents in New York City was met with a similarly large-scale counter-protest. This time, however, the protesters thwarted the authorities’ plans before they began.

Multiple arrests were made on Saturday during scuffles on the edge of Chinatown, during which hundreds of protesters faced off with federal agents and the New York Police Department (NYPD) as they prepared to launch a raid in the area.

It comes just a month after a raid by 50 federal agents using military-style vehicles stormed Canal Street in Lower Manhattan, and was met with a protest of hundreds in response.

The mass counter-protest of some 200 people, according to the New York Times, demonstrates the challenges federal authorities will face in enforcing Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown in a city that is rooted in its immigrant identity.

  • FirstCircle@lemmy.mlEnglish
    44·
    2 days ago

    Why is the NYPD helping ICE? Hasn’t the mayor banned them from doing so? If not I would hope the future mayor will issue a no-helpy-ice order to them.

    • rainwall@piefed.socialEnglish
      50·
      2 days ago

      Eric Adams went full team Trump to get his federal corruption investigation stopped, including fully supporting ICE raids in NYC. Long time federal lawyers resigned rather than drop the case, but they were replaced by sychophants.

      So no, the current mayor isnt opposed.

    • pageflight@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      (DHS) gathered in a parking garage in a federal building on the edge of Chinatown in preparation for a raid.

      Videos of the incident show protesters blocking the agents as they try to leave the garage in their cars. The crowd then swells to the hundreds, as more NYPD officers arrive.

      Later, according to reports, federal agents emerged from the garage and assisted the NYPD in detaining protesters

      And all paid for with tax dollars.