Amid ongoing outrage over Tuesday’s Canal Street ICE raid, masked agents seemed to take on a new approach at nearby 26 Federal Plaza last week: Rounding up several families at a time and taking them into custody for questioning.

In the days following Tuesday’s chaotic and violent takedown in Chinatown, the sense of fear and despair inside Lower Manhattan’s immigration court only grew more palpable.

According to sources familiar with ICE agent proceedings inside 26 Federal Plaza, the masked agents' tactics have changed. In an attempt to shift media attention, the masked men are altering the way they make detentions by trading in physicality for stealthy procedure.

As amNewYork observed last week, a Russian man, accompanied by his wife, baby, and small child, was stopped as soon as he lef

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