Comptroller Brad Lander and more than a dozen other local elected officials were arrested Thursday afternoon after demanding to oversee a controversial detention center at Immigration Court in downtown Manhattan.

The leaders were zip-tied and detained after demanding access to the 10th-floor holding cells that have become an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in 26 Federal Plaza. They were attempting to conduct oversight of the conditions in the facility after a judge on Wednesday ordered feds to improve the reportedly overcrowded and dirty conditions at the site.

In addition to Lander, the group included Assemblymembers Marcela Mitaynes, Julia Salazar, Emily Gallagher, Jessica González-Rojas, Claire Valdez, Tony Simone and Steven Raga and State Senators Jabari Bris

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