{"id":220713,"date":"2026-05-05T15:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220713\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:08:06","slug":"great-neck-protesters-call-on-citizens-bank-to-cut-ties-to-ice-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220713\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Neck protesters call on Citizens Bank to cut ties to ICE contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>About 50 demonstrators gathered Thursday, April 30, outside a Citizens Bank branch in Great Neck, calling on the financial institution to cut ties with private prison companies they say support federal immigration detention.<\/p>\n<p>The rally, held in the afternoon at the intersection of Middle Neck Road and Grace Avenue, was part of a coordinated national day of action organized by Bend the Arc Jewish Action and T\u2019ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. Similar demonstrations took place in 17 cities across the country, according to organizers.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.longislandpress.com\/2026\/05\/05\/great-neck-protesters-call-on-citizens-bank-to-cut-ties-to-ice-contractors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at LI Press &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tGreat Neck protesters call on Citizens Bank to cut ties to ICE contractors &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; About 50 demonstrators gathered Thursday, April 30, outside a Citizens Bank branch in Great Neck, calling on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-220713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220713","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=220713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}