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Department of Homeland Security agents arrested 70 New Yorkers outside 26 Federal Plaza on Thursday afternoon,
with an additional 12 elected officials arrested upstairs,
after they had attempted to enter the building to assess the living conditions of immigrants detained there.

Some of the electeds had made it past the doors, and came upstairs
— only to be handcuffed moments later. 

Among the officials arrested include New York City Comptroller Brad Lander,
Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams,
Assemblymember Emily Gallagher,
Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas,
Assemblymember Robert C. Carroll,
State Sen. Jabari Brisport
and Council member Sandy Nurse.

Lander (who had, in June, been arrested by DHS police at Federal Plaza while attempting to escort an immigrant from a court hearing),
Sen. Julia Salazar,
and more than 15 other elected officials and faith leaders
said they had come to 26 Federal Plaza to peacefully gain entry to the 10th floor.

“I’ve been here more than a dozen times,
and every single time I have seen a lawless abduction,”
said Comptroller Lander,
while sitting cross-legged on the floor outside the elevators of the first floor of Federal Plaza.
“I saw a woman who was eight months pregnant have her husband ripped from her arms,
and what she said to my wife, she’s sobbing in my wife’s arms, was,
‘Are they going to kill him?’” 
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