Anti-ICE activists said they\u2019ve seen an uptick in agent sightings across the city.<\/p>\n
And while they may not be able to stop ICE from operating in New York, they said they can pressure businesses they believe are supporting the federal agency.<\/p>\n
According to protesters, federal immigration officials may have found a place to park at an Icon garage in Tribeca, but not a place to operate unnoticed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey should move elsewhere or get out of New York City,\u201d Tribeca resident Olivia Harris said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen neighbors speak up, I would love for decision makers, big companies, elected officials to really pay close attention \u2014 a careful eye and ear to what we\u2019re saying,\u201d activist Rachel Lee said.<\/p>\n
Neighbors said concerns began in late May after they noticed dark-tinted vehicles repeatedly entering the garage on Harrison Street they had used for years.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then suddenly we were stopped. We were told this is a locked federal facility,\u201d Tribeca resident Harriet Grimm said.<\/p>\n
Manhattan Councilman Christopher Marte, who represents Tribeca, said around the same time, his office reached out to the management company and was told they were ending the contract. Months later, he\u2019s seen no change.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re using these parking spots to capture our neighbors, to tear families apart, to illegally deport people in put them in inhumane conditions,\u201d Marte said.<\/p>\n
But while protesters are demanding more visibility, a federal judge Monday ruled immigration officers do not have to show their faces or identification. The judge, though, did not block a separate law ending local immigration enforcement agreements, and also said the state cannot be forced to participate in federal immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that a federal judge just said that it\u2019s alright for masked bandits to roam the streets without identification and snatch people off the street is deeply troubling,\u201d activist Jay W. Walker said.<\/p>\n
Whether they wear masks or not, protesters said the public deserves to know where and how immigration enforcement is operating in their neighborhoods.<\/p>\n
NY1 reached out to the management company for comment, but did not hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anti-ICE activists said they\u2019ve seen an uptick in agent sightings across the city. And while they may not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[387,25,388,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,308,27,200],"class_list":["post-313069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-louis-finley","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313069","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=313069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}