A day after federal agents swept through Canal Street in Chinatown \u2014 arresting nine undocumented immigrants \u2014 outrage spilled into the streets of Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Protesters rallying at Foley Square called the recent arrests an abuse of power
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Earlier Wednesday, Rep. Dan Goldman stood outside 26 Federal Plaza, accusing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of using excessive force and detaining people without cause
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ICE defended its operation, saying those still detained have prior convictions for robbery, assault and drug trafficking<\/p>\n
Protesters rallying at Foley Square called the arrests an abuse of power.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re defending our nation. We\u2019re defending our rights. We\u2019re sticking up for what America says they stand on and holding them accountable,\u201d Keyra Arias of the Upper West Side, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re crossing a line. I have to be part of the visible opposition,\u201d Lee Crawford, a Brooklyn resident, said.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets, calling attention to the immigration raids that had happened on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Earlier Wednesday, Rep. Dan Goldman stood outside 26 Federal Plaza, accusing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of using excessive force and detaining people without cause.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s purely a pretext to incite violence so this administration can then say it needs to bring in the military to stop violence that they have created,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Goldman and immigrant advocate Murad Awawdeh claim four U.S. citizens were wrongly detained and later released.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir families filed missing people’s reports on them. And only found out that ICE had them after the NYPD told them they were being detained by ICE.\u201d Awawdeh, the president of New York Immigration Coalition, said.<\/p>\n
ICE defended its operation, saying those still detained have prior convictions for robbery, assault and drug trafficking.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the people of New York, I think they can expect to see ICE and our other federal partners do the law enforcement mission,\u201d Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, said during an interview on Fox News.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo ICE, no fear. Immigrants are welcome here,\u201d protesters shouted.<\/p>\n
As ICE says to expect more operations on city streets, protesters vow to keep the pressure on federal officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A day after federal agents swept through Canal Street in Chinatown \u2014 arresting nine undocumented immigrants \u2014 outrage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[387,25,10022,388,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,308,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-12895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-app-public-safety","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-ice-protests","11":"tag-louis-finley","12":"tag-manhattan","13":"tag-manhattan-headlines","14":"tag-manhattan-news","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-public-safety","20":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895","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=12895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}