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New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is placed nether apprehension by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and FBI agents extracurricular national migration tribunal connected Tuesday, June 17, 2025, successful New York.
Olga Fedorova | AP
New York City Comptroller and mayoral campaigner Brad Lander was detained Tuesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arsenic helium was escorting a suspect retired of immigration court, his woman said successful a statement.
"While escorting a suspect retired of migration tribunal astatine 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE," Lander's wife, Meg Barnette, wrote connected X.
"This is inactive developing, and our squad is monitoring the concern closely," Barnette wrote.
ICE did not instantly respond to CNBC's petition for comment.
Video of the incidental shows Lander lasting extracurricular a courtroom erstwhile helium is approached by officers wearing masks.
Lander repeatedly asks the officers to amusement him a judicial warrant earlier helium is handcuffed, per the video posted by Barnette.
Lander is inactive successful custody arsenic of aboriginal Tuesday afternoon, Barnette said during a property league aft the incident.
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is placed nether apprehension by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and FBI agents extracurricular national migration tribunal connected Tuesday, June 17, 2025, successful New York.
Olga Fedorova | AP
"I americium conscionable precise alert of however I consciousness close present watching Brad being taken distant and that it's going to beryllium ok, and for each of those different families successful there, they can't accidental that," she said.
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The incidental comes days aft police handcuffed Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., aft helium was forcibly removed from a property league that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was holding in Los Angeles.
"If that is what the medication is going to bash to a United States legislator for having the authorization to simply inquire a question, ideate what they volition bash to immoderate American who dares to talk up," Padilla said during remarks from the Senate level connected Tuesday.
This is simply a processing communicative and volition beryllium updated.
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