{"id":779,"date":"2025-06-21T10:10:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T14:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=779"},"modified":"2025-06-27T10:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:20:13","slug":"comptroller-brad-lander-returns-to-lower-manhattan-court-days-after-arrest-to-again-advocate-for-immigrants-facing-ice-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2025\/06\/21\/comptroller-brad-lander-returns-to-lower-manhattan-court-days-after-arrest-to-again-advocate-for-immigrants-facing-ice-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Comptroller Brad Lander returns to Lower Manhattan court days after arrest to again advocate for immigrants facing ICE arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/brad-lander-returns-manhattan-court-arrest\/\">AMNY<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/author\/robertpozarycki\/\">Robert Pozarycki<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/author\/lloyd-mitchell\/\">Lloyd Mitchell<\/a>  | June 21, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was back at 26 Federal Plaza Friday,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/brad-lander-arrested-ice-court-hearing-06172025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three days after his arrest there,<\/a>&nbsp;to once again observe court hearings for immigrants subject to immediate deportation by ICE.<\/p>\n<p>Lander\u2019s arrest and hours-long detainment on June 17 sparked backlash across the city and country. Gov. Kathy Hochul personally intervened in the matter, and the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/dhs.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Homeland Security<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 which initially claimed the comptroller had assaulted agents, despite video evidence to the contrary \u2014 released Lander without charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Undeterred, Lander returned to 26 Federal Plaza on June 20 to again observe and advocate for immigrants appearing for court-mandated hearings \u2014 which he said has evolved into \u201ca deeply dehumanizing process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Queens City Council Member Tiffany Cab\u00e1n attended the observations with Lander along with Brooklyn City Council Member Shahana Hanif and Queens state Sen. Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas. Cab\u00e1n noted that some of the judges at immigration court have been attempting to follow the law and act in the immigrants\u2019 best interests, while other jurists have been acting more disrespectfully to the immigrants appearing before them and attempting to shun those seeking to observe the cases.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>[Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/brad-lander-returns-manhattan-court-arrest\/\">here<\/a>]<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/brad-lander-returns-manhattan-court-arrest\/\">AMNY<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/author\/robertpozarycki\/\">Robert Pozarycki<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/author\/lloyd-mitchell\/\">Lloyd Mitchell<\/a>  | June 21, 2025<\/p>\n<p>City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was back at 26 Federal Plaza Friday,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/brad-lander-arrested-ice-court-hearing-06172025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three days after his arrest there,<\/a>&nbsp;to once again observe court hearings for immigrants subject to immediate deportation by ICE.<\/p>\n<p>Lander\u2019s arrest and hours-long detainment on June 17 sparked backlash across the city and country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2025\/06\/21\/comptroller-brad-lander-returns-to-lower-manhattan-court-days-after-arrest-to-again-advocate-for-immigrants-facing-ice-arrest\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,13],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-justice-reform","tag-criminal-justice","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}