{"id":98266,"date":"2026-01-13T04:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/98266\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T04:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:11:09","slug":"ice-detains-city-council-staffer-at-routine-immigration-hearing-menin-mamdani-demand-immediate-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/98266\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE detains City Council staffer at routine immigration hearing; Menin, Mamdani demand immediate release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/council.nyc.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York City Council<\/a> worker was detained by <a href=\"http:\/\/ice.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ICE<\/a> agents on Long Island on Monday, according to City Council Speaker Julie Menin.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed staffer, a data analyst for the Council, was taken into custody during <a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">what was supposed to be a routine immigration hearing<\/a> in Bethpage. According to Menin, the employee had been legally permitted to stay in the U.S. until this October.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/immigration\/city-council-staffer-detained-ice-01122026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tICE detains City Council staffer at routine immigration hearing; Menin, Mamdani demand immediate release &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A New York City Council worker was detained by ICE agents on Long Island on Monday, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,301,29423,302,45295,45296,8072,12241,359,9,24,12,63,45297,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-98266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city-council","tag-city-council-speaker","tag-city-hall","tag-city-employee-detained","tag-council-speaker-julie-menin","tag-ice-arrest","tag-ice-detainment","tag-lower-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-neighborhoods","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98266","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=98266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98266\/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=98266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}