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Month: May 2025

Police and anti-ICE protesters clash outside immigration court in New York

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May 29, 2025

The Department of Homeland Security said a demonstrator attempted to disrupt a federal immigration arrest in New York City on Wednesday.

Nearly two dozen anti-ICE protesters were also detained in another part of the city later that day. 

Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told [news source] that ICE agents contacted Federal Protective Service (FPS) on Wednesday morning and “requested assistance as their officers were conducting arrests” in the lobby of a federal immigration court building.

McLaughlin said FPS officers responded and saw several protesters filming and taking pictures of law enforcement personnel in the lobby. She said that at approximately 11:45 a.m. a person attempted to forcibly interfere with ICE agents attempting to place someone in custody.

McLaughlin said ICE reported the incident to FPS as “an assault on one of their officers.” The person was briefly taken into custody, issued a U.S. district court violation notice and released, according to McLaughlin.

Later that day, nearly two dozen anti-ICE protesters were detained by the New York Police Department outside a federal building in Manhattan on Wednesday night after a chaotic protest led to police struggling with demonstrators.

Protests erupted into chaos as officers and members of the crowd clashed over barricades. Protesters were taken into custody for charges that include obstruction of government administration.

“People say, ‘Oh, let them come in legally,’ and when they try to come in legally and follow court proceedings they’re being kidnapped,” a woman named Mariposa said.

The demonstrations happened hours after witnesses reported several people were taken into custody inside the ICE field office in SoHo.

“I’ve never seen anything like this. I’ve been working here for a couple years and I’ve never seen this many agents, let alone agents dressed in plain clothes, wearing masks, pulling people out of line. It’s totally out of the ordinary,” a man named Ben said.

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ICE detention of New York City public school student sparks protests

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May 30, 2025

There is growing outrage over the detention of a young Venezuelan immigrant who advocates say was duped into giving up his asylum status.

The 20-year-old New York City public school student named Dylan was taken into custody by ICE agents who were waiting after a hearing in federal immigration court.

The outrage reached the steps of the city’s education department in Lower Manhattan Thursday evening, where demonstrators rallied and demanded Dylan’s release.

“Dylan has been tricked, trapped and kidnapped,” said immigrant rights activist Power Malu. “He was doing everything the right way.”

Malu has been in touch with Dylan’s mother, who’s now in hiding.

In just eight days, ICE has shuttled Dylan around to four different states across the country, including as far away as Texas. He’s now locked up in western Pennsylvania.

Earlier Thursday, demonstrators held a vigil outside immigration court. It was the same federal building where Dylan was taken into custody last week.

Clergy and immigrants’ rights activists circled the building, marching in silent protest over the nation’s deportation agenda — policies they insist are racist and inhumane.

“Nothing can change unless the people stand up, we know that what we are doing is on the right side of justice, soon people will understand this and will stand up,” said Ravi Raragbir with New Sanctuary Coalition.

Unlike others arrested in the city earlier this year, Dylan had no criminal record and was in the U.S. legally. He, his mother and his siblings had been granted temporary protected status (TPS) under the Biden Administration’s asylum program.

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ACTIVISTS LIBERATE TWO LAMBS BEFORE SLAUGHTER FOR EASTER.

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April, NY, USA

received anonymously via email:

“We decided to pay a visit to a farm we knew was getting ready to slaughter dozens of innocent lambs for Easter. To our surprise and good luck of these two now free comrades, the farmer was away from the farm and no other human workers seemed to be around at the moment. Already knowing where these prisoners were located, we decided to go in, unfortunately, the skins of what seemed recently murdered lambs were already lying on the ground which confirmed our urge to act. After a few minutes we were all out of the farm on our way to freedom. It is lamentable only two animal comrades made it out, but at least they’ll get to spend the rest of their lives happy and safe. If you’re reading this, go out, liberate animals, take direct action.

Solidarity forever.”

Source: Unoffensive Animal

Retaliatory Attack on Columbia University Public Safety

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Last week, Columbia University Public Safety trapped students inside Butler Library after they established the Basel Al-Araj Popular University. Students launched the university to “exert sustained pressure on university administrators to divest from the Zionist entity,” as CUAD explained in a statement.

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New York GOP headquarters defaced with Nazi imagery

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April 30, 2025

The New York state Republican Party’s Albany headquarters was vandalized and defaced with Nazi imagery for the second time this month as GOP leaders criticized Democrats for ratcheting up political tensions.

Vandals taped swastikas to the doors and windows of the GOP’s offices and a message that read, “If this is not what you stand for, prove it,” according to the Albany Police Department, which is investigating the crimes. It was the second such incident at the party’s headquarters in the past two weeks, authorities said. No arrests have been made.

New York GOP chairman Ed Cox blasted the “hateful vandalism,” saying it “invites political violence and threatens the wellbeing of our employees and guests.”

“This is not only an attack on our party, it is also an attack on the values of civil discourse, democracy and decency.”

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NYPD arrests pro-Palestinian protesters after Columbia University library takeover

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Police arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who took over part of Columbia University’s main library on May 7.

Ahead of finals week at the Ivy League campus, student activists clashed with campus public safety officials and contracted security guards inside and outside Butler Library.

Videos posted to social media showed confrontations between university officials at the entrance to a reading room inside the library. Outside, scores of students gathered, with some trying to force their way into the building.

Dozens of people donning masks and keffiyehs could be seen chanting and hoisting signs in support of Palestinians and Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate student who has been held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention over his pro-Palestinian advocacy.

Claire Shipman, Columbia University’s acting president, said in an update that the university asked New York City police to assist in securing the building.

In the evening, the university sent a campus text alert that the library is closed and the area must be cleared. Shipman said two campus public safety personnel were injured in a crowd rush. The student radio news station WKCR reported demonstrators had also been injured.

NYPD officers wearing helmets and face shields entered the campus from a closed-off street.

An NYPD spokesperson said police made multiple arrests but declined to provide an exact amount. Police officers escorted dozens of people cuffed in zip ties onto NYPD buses and vans, Reuters reported.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio tweeted that officials would review visa statuses for those who took over the library.

Just outside campus gates, another group of demonstrators gathered in support of those arrested.

University officials earlier said there was a disruption in a reading room, and people were asked for identification. They were then asked to disperse. The protesters were told that failing to comply would result in violations of university rules and policies, and possible arrest. None chose to identify themselves and depart, university officials said.

In a blog post earlier in the afternoon, student demonstrators said they entered the library, dubbing it “Basel Al-Araj Popular University,” named for a Palestinian activist and writer.

“Repression breeds resistance,” the post said, “if Columbia escalates repression, the people will continue to escalate disruptions on this campus.”

In March, the Trump administration gave the university an ultimatum to adopt a set of policies to quell pro-Palestinian protests in order to receive federal funds. The policies included adopting rules around masks, protests and allowing law enforcement to arrest demonstrators.

Just over a year ago, hundreds of NYPD in riot gear entered the campus after a group of student demonstrators took over a building. More than 100 people were arrested, though prosecutors dropped charges for most.

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