U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swooped down on Canal St. in lower Manhattan Tuesday afternoon in a surprise raid and detained a number of individuals, police sources said.

ICE agents rounded up people along several blocks of Canal St., from Church St. to Lafayette St., on the borders of SoHo, Tribeca and Chinatown, shutting down the area as they conducted a raid targeting illegal street vendors, according to witnesses and ABC 7 .

Bobbie Baro, a longtime vendor originally from Mauritania, who was selling knockoff Beats headphones, said when the agents showed up, “Everybody started running.” He said he didn’t run because, “I have ID.”

“ICE, they do what they want to do. They target our community,” Baro said. “They asked random people for ID. They didn’t have it and they

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