New York lawmakers dragged out of ICE facility as they demand answers

Protests against the Trump administration’s treatment of migrants raged this week at 26 Federal Plaza—the lower Manhattan building that has become a symbol of the president’s deportation agenda.

But what started as a demand for transparency turned into a showdown, with nearly a dozen Democratic lawmakers ending up in zip ties.

On Thursday, protesters swarmed the building inside and out. On the notorious 10th floor—where lawmakers have been repeatedly denied entry and where videos have shown migrants sleeping on the floor—New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and 10 state legislators staged a sit-in. They knocked on doors, sang protest songs, and unfurled a banner that read “NYers against ICE.”

Less than an hour later, agents stormed in, charged them with loitering, and dragged them out