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Immigrant advocates stopped a large-scale federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency operation near Canal St. Saturday by blocking the entrance to a Chinatown garage where the masked agents had gathered, temporarily preventing them from leaving, officials and advocates said.

ICE agents needed to call in the NYPD, who arrested protesters after giving multiple warnings to stop blocking the sidewalk and the garage entrance.

Once the caravan of ICE agents moved out of the garage, NYPD officers were recorded pepper-spraying demonstrators as they tried to chase the departing motorcade, throwing debris and garbage from a nearby dumpster at their vehicles. The departing ICE agents drove to New Jersey to regroup, a law enforcement source to

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