{"id":11348,"date":"2025-10-21T22:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11348\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:53:09","slug":"ice-agents-make-busts-on-canal-street-in-nycs-chinatown-in-effort-to-crack-down-on-illegal-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11348\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE agents make busts on Canal Street in NYC&#8217;s Chinatown in effort to crack down on illegal vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal immigration authorities arrested multiple illegal vendors on Tuesday afternoon on Canal Street in Manhattan\u2019s Chinatown, law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n<p>ICE agents descended on the block between Lafayette and Centre Street, which is typically crowded with merchants selling knockoff designer bags and other items, around 4 p.m., according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p>Some vendors tried to flee, with some seen running and falling as agents closed in,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/federal-agents-conducting-enforcement-illegal-vending-canal-street-nyc\/18052570\/?userab=news_search_page_design_unification-429*variant_a_control_search-1786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to WABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Federal ICE agents descended upon Canal Street in NYC\u2019s Chinatown on Tuesday. William Farrington<\/p>\n<p>The agents were cracking down on illegal vendors. William Farrington<\/p>\n<p>The Post witnessed agents checking IDs and taking about five vendors into custody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw this live in real time and real history,\u201d said Manhattan resident Kaden Cummings, 23. \u201cThey just started grabbing people and putting them into vans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Edwin Jean, who is from Brooklyn, told The Post he was briefly cuffed by the feds when he refused to hand over his ID.<\/p>\n<p>Many vendors attempted to flee, with some seen running and falling as agents closed in. Gregory P. Mango<\/p>\n<p>Agents arrested multiple illegal vendors in an effort to crackdown on the selling of knockoff designer bags and other items. William Farrington<\/p>\n<p>The Post witnessed about five vendors being taken into custody. William Farrington<\/p>\n<p>He then became enraged and began swearing at the agents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not doing nothing, I\u2019m from Brooklyn,\u201d Jean said. \u201cThey asked me for my ID and I didn\u2019t give it to them so they cuffed me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time this has happened over here in Manhattan. They never come over here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By early Tuesday evening, about 100 people had gathered outside 26 Federal Plaza to protest the arrests.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/1980743910700802167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a post on X<\/a>, the NYPD said it \u201chad no involvement in the federal operation that took place on Canal Street this afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal immigration authorities arrested multiple illegal vendors on Tuesday afternoon on Canal Street in Manhattan\u2019s Chinatown, law enforcement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3283,9098,2035,57,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-11348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-chinatown","10":"tag-ice","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}