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ICE vehicle gets tire cut

May 22, 2026

Federal vehical NYJCD8996 was back and all fixed up, so on monday night I cut one of its tires. Since (frustratingly) I wasn’t able to get the other 3 tires (and since it came back after getting messed up before) I went back a few nights later but it seems like they moved it. Maybe it’ll show up somewhere else, if you see it fuck it up more I guess.

Submitted anonymously.

A call to anarchists in NY:

In the next several weeks there is likely to be a surge of ICE enforcement in New York state and NYC. Although ICE has been operating with increased frequency in the city since last year, the DHS seceratary has now made clear they will be surging the city in response to some very tame anti-ice legislation that was passed in the recently .

This is an opportunity for anarchists to make clear the state of play here, and this anarchist thinks its important for ICE to meet organized and loud resistance from the jump. There is infrastructure here through the likes of community patrol and rapid response networks that allows for notification of active ice raids as well as more stationary ICE infrastructure that is throughout New York that is already known.

Its important that any confrontations with ICE are material from the jump. In Minneapolis though the surge there was met with a wide community response it was mostly led by liberal groups supporting the democratic state government. A surge in New York is an opportunity to address ICE presence in a way that actually works to decrease deportations long term and widen antogonistic struggle against the state here.

Liberal and radlib groups opposing ICE as well as likely the city government will be out doing what they do, and the only counter to that is direct action that pushes the confrontations beyond liberal capture & betrayal.

Tom Homan (DHS seceratary) has made clear that they will approach NYC from a different angle tactically to avoid the difficulties from the Minneapolis surge. That means we are much more likely to see large amounts of targeted warrant kidnappings as opposed to broad street sweeps, though that’s possible too.

Regardless of what form it takes anarchists in new York should take the opportunity to check in with friends, pack up their gear and be ready for what might happen soon. Keeping fellow New Yorkers safe means direct action, and that means being ready for that.

Submitted anonymously.

Towing company from Jamaica, Queens rescues ICE

On Saturday May 1st at Wyckoff Heights hospital a large crowd attempted to stop the deportation of a local man by ICE. As the feds attempted to leave the scene, several of their cars got fucked up. They were able to hobble most of the way back to Manhattan, but one of the cars did not make it and broke down on the Williamsburg Bridge. That car had flat tires, a smashed out back window and electrical problems. After several hours of trying to jumpstart the car and change its tires, the ICE agents began calling towing companies. The company that showed up is called Richmond Towing, and it’s located in Jamaica Queens.

Richmond Towing
+1 718 323 2576
106-16 148th St, Jamaica, NY 11435

Submitted anonymously.

ICE Windshield Smashed During Protest in Bushwick

May 3, 2026

maybe someone else will submit more of a report back, but for now, it was nice to see an ice vehicle’s windshield smashed by a skateboard, in bushwick saturday night.

“Exclusive video shows a protester break the back windshield of an ICE vehicle with a skateboard. This was in Bushwick last night as protesters gathered outside Wyckoff Hospital to protest the arrest of a Nigerian man who was taken to the hospital for evaluation after being detained by ‘force necessary to make the arrest.'”

spotted on local mainstream news’ social media: https://imginn.com/p/DX5CqPEPr2h/

ICE vehicle tail lights smashed, tires slashed

April 28, 2026

This past week a federal vehicle NYJCD8996 responsible for kidnapping our neighbors in an ICE raid was found and dealt with. Tires slashed, tailights smashed, and “FUCK ICE” message left in red paint. ICE thinks it’s safe go wherever it wants in the streets of NYC inflicting fear. Fuck that and inflict the fear back.

To ICE: You are not safe from the people. You will be held accountable. The people hold you accountable for lives you terrorize, destroy, and end. This is in retirbution for Aled Amien Carbonell-Betancourt, Alejandro Cabrera Clemente, Tuan Van Bui, Jose Gudalupe Ramos, Royer Perez Jimenez, Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, Emanuel Cleeford Damas, Pejman Najafabadi, Alberto Guttierrez Reyes, Jairo Garcia Hernandez, Lorth Sim, Victor Manuel Diaz, Heber Sanchez Dominguez, Parady La, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, Geraldo Lunas Campos, Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr.

These are just names of those murdered by ICE in the first 4 months of this year. ICE has been detaining and murdering people for over 20 years. This is just a part of an interitance of vioelnce that is not new in the “United States”. These names echo the long legacy of “America” turning human beings in bodies to be contained, controlled, exploited, and exterminated. Private detention centers came from private prisons. And prison is a descendant of slavery, Jim Crow, indigenous “reservations”, and genocide. This is the legacy ICE sits in, the legacy of white supremacy.

And this white supremacist violent control does not stop at the borders. “USA” has a foreign policy defined by the overwhelming force of a bully who dehumanizes their enemy. The same way ICE treats human beings as disposable is playing out in bombs in Iran and Palestine. This is who “America” is. What happens abroad is a mirror of what we allow here. They will continue to do what we allow them to. So let’s stop allowing it.

“No soy un libertador. Los libertadores no existen. Son los pueblos quienes se liberan a si mismos.”
Stop ICE wherever they are. Find them and let them know that they can fuck off.

Submitted anonymously.

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next

Feb 10, 2026

ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

Federal records obtained by WIRED show that over the past several months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have carried out a secret campaign to expand ICE’s physical presence across the US. Documents show that more than 150 leases and office expansions have or would place new facilities in nearly every state, many of them in or just outside of the country’s largest metropolitan areas.

In New York, ICE is moving into offices on Long Island near a passport center.

The General Services Administration (GSA), which manages federal buildings and functions as the government’s internal IT department, is playing a critical role in this aggressive expansion. In numerous emails and memorandums viewed by WIRED, DHS asked GSA explicitly to disregard usual government lease procurement procedures and even hide lease listings due to “national security concerns” in an effort to support ICE’s immigration enforcement activities across the US.

Since President Donald Trump took office in 2025, ICE has more than doubled in size. DHS claims the agency now has 22,000 officers and agents stationed around the country and is still in the process of hiring more. The agency received nearly $80 billion in funding as part of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, giving it virtually unlimited resources to combat what the administration has consistently portrayed as an “invasion.” With new employees comes a desperate need for office space, and the possibility of deployment to new areas of operation.

In September, as NPR and The Washington Post reported, a number of GSA employees were added to an “ICE surge” team responsible for finding new office locations and expanding preexisting offices for ICE employees. More specifically, according to documents viewed by WIRED, workers at the Public Buildings Service (PBS), the department within GSA that handles government buildings and leases, were assigned to actively support ICE’s physical expansion and told to find leasing spaces for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA) divisions across the country. ERO is tasked with immigration enforcement, including the arrest, detention, and removal of immigrants, and previously operated out of only 25 field offices in the US; OPLA is the legal arm of ICE, and lawyers with OPLA litigate “all removal cases including those against criminal aliens, terrorists, and human rights abusers,” for DHS, according to ICE’s website.

Records reviewed by WIRED show that the ICE surge team has successfully found spaces for ICE across the country. In addition to expanding previously held ICE offices, it has moved or is moving ICE into new buildings, or into space the government controlled under the terms of existing leases, in almost every US state and major city.

Starting in September, GSA was pushed to bypass the Competition in Contracting Act (CICA) that requires open competition among bidders for federal building and lease procurements, because ICE requested that leases fall under the “unusual or compelling urgency” government statute. The statute states that the procuring agency’s “need for the supplies or services is of such an unusual and compelling urgency that the Government would be seriously injured unless the agency is permitted to limit the number of sources from which it solicits bids or proposals, full and open competition need not be provided for.”

A training kickoff for PBS staff assigned to the ICE surge team the same month cited the “Big Beautiful Bill” and the aim of hiring 13,000 new ICE employees, as the “trigger event” for the new team. These team members were told that around 250 new locations were needed for ICE employees, and this would be potentially achieved by new lease acquisitions and by locating ICE in existing federal spaces. The “primary focus is securing a space. Renovations are secondary,” shows documentation viewed by WIRED. Employees were instructed to move as quickly as possible, without getting “hung up” on issues like “needing paint and carpet before occupancy.”

In a memorandum dated September 10, 2025, an OPLA representative asked GSA’s office of general counsel to look past the usual leasing procedures with the “unusual and compelling urgency justification,” in accordance with Trump’s executive order on immigration. “In the next three months, OPLA will grow to more than 3,500 attorneys and 1,000 support staff,” the memorandum states. “OPLA has critical space needs that require the ability to identify office locations nationwide that OPLA can readily occupy as soon as possible.”

GSA’s ICE surge team began visiting potential leasing locations and worked to finalize deals within days. A DHS official sent GSA an email on September 24, 2025, asking that the agency not publicize leasing information, recognizing that this request was outside of the “normal” process. “Due to national security concerns and recent attacks against ICE, publicizing new lease locations puts our officers, employees, and detainees in grave danger,” the email stated.

GSA was instructed in January 2025 to pause most acquisitions, deliveries, and modifications, except for projects under $50,000 and those related to supporting security measures for the president’s office. But on September 25, 2025, a GSA commissioner emailed other leaders at the agency that “an exception to the acquisition pause has been approved for all actions supporting the ICE hiring surge, regardless of dollar value.”

By September 29, GSA had already awarded leasing projects, and the ERO division at ICE had sent the ICE surge team a list of requirements for specific leasing locations, including sally ports—a secure entryway system with interlocking doors used by military troops, prisons, and police stations—and other security measures. ICE also came to GSA with a specific request: that any new location be within a 10-mile radius of an existing ERO facility.

By early October, the ICE surge team was working through the government shutdown, even as other critical government work was put on hold. Days after the shutdown began, GSA was still awarding leases. On October 6, 2025, a signed internal memorandum stated that GSA should “approve of all new lease housing determinations associated with ICE hiring surge,” in light of ICE’s “urgent” space requirements and the purported impact of delays on the agency’s ability to “meet critical immigration enforcement deadlines.”

On October 9, the same day that Trump announced in a cabinet meeting that the government would be making “permanent” cuts from “Democrat programs” during the shutdown, GSA received a list from OPLA with requests for office locations, including expansions and new leases, in 41 cities around the country.

In a memorandum dated October 29, 2025, a representative from Homeland Security Investigations—one of the two major departments within ICE, along with ERO, and tasked with a wide range of investigative work in cases ranging from human trafficking to art theft—asked GSA’s office of general counsel to engage in nationwide lease acquisition on behalf of DHS “using the unusual and compelling urgency justification,” in accordance with Trump’s executive immigration order.

“If HSI cannot effectively obtain office space in a timely manner, HSI will be adversely impacted in accomplishing its mission—a mission that is inextricably tied to the Administration’s priority in protecting the American People Against Invasion,” the memorandum states.

By early November, according to documents viewed by WIRED, 19 projects had been awarded in cities around the US, including Nashville, Tennessee; Dallas, Texas; Sacramento, California; and Tampa, Florida. Multiple projects were days away from being awarded in Miami, Florida; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and New Orleans, Louisiana, among others, and emergency requests for short-term space had been made in eight cities, including Atlanta, Georgia; Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; and Newark, New Jersey.

In documents viewed by WIRED, ICE has repeatedly outlined its expansion to cities around the US. The September memorandum citing “unusual and compelling urgency” for office expansion states that OPLA will be “expanding its legal operations” into Birmingham, Alabama; Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, and Tampa, Florida; Des Moines, Iowa; Boise, Idaho; Louisville, Kentucky; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Grand Rapids, Michigan; St. Louis, Missouri; Raleigh, North Carolina; Long Island, New York; Columbus, Ohio; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; Richmond, Virginia; Spokane, Washington and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The memorandum also states that the existing offices are at maximum capacity and will “require additional space” to accommodate the new employees hired. At the time, the memo states that OPLA had selected almost 1,000 attorneys to hire.

Months after the “surge” began, ICE’s expansion to American cities is well underway, according to documentation viewed by WIRED. The table below gives a detailed listing of planned ICE lease locations as of January, and includes current ICE offices that are set to expand and new spaces the agency is poised to occupy. It does not include more than 100 planned ICE locations across many states—including California, New York, and New Jersey—where WIRED has not viewed every specific address.

A Trump administration official recently told WIRED that California and New York are “next” for the type of fraud investigation that culminated in 3,000 ICE agents in Minneapolis.

In New York and New Jersey, ICE is expanding its physical footprint rapidly. In Roseland, New Jersey, less than an hour’s drive from New York City, ICE is moving into a building at 5 Becker Farm Road. The building is located near the Roseland Child Development Center. In Woodbury, New York, a hamlet in Long Island, ICE is moving into offices located at 88 Froehlich Farm Boulevard, near an expedited passport center. In New Windsor, New York, a town within driving distance of New York City along the Hudson River known for the Storm King Art Center, ICE is moving into offices at 843 Union Avenue. All three of these locations are within an hour and a half from a warehouse [at 29 Elizabeth Drive] in Chester, New York, that DHS is pursuing as an immigrant detention center.

Together, the leasing plans give a clear picture of where ICE is going next in the US: Everywhere.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/ice-expansion-across-us-at-heres-where-its-going-next | https://es.wired.com/articulos/el-ice-se-expande-como-un-rayo-en-ee-uu-con-una-opaca-red-de-nuevas-oficinas

ICE opening huge lockup 50 miles north of New York City

January 16, 2026

The Department of Homeland Security appears to be moving ahead with a new immigrant detention facility to hold as many as 1,500 detainees in Chester, New York — just over an hour from New York City.

It’s part of the Trump administration’s push to ramp up mass arrests and deportations using cash from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that Congress passed last year at the president’s behest.

In an online advisory posted on Jan. 8, DHS laid out its proposal “to purchase, occupy and rehabilitate a warehouse property at 29 Elizabeth Drive, Chester, NY in support of ICE operations,” including erecting a small new guard building.  

The advisory, which was required because part of the 35.9 acre property sits in a flood plain, does not explicitly reference a jail. But The Washington Post reported last month about DHS’ plans for several new large-scale “processing facilities” for detainees, including one in Chester. 

Those new facilities are intended to hold immigrant detainees for a few weeks, according to the Post, before they are sent to large-scale warehouses in Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Georgia and Missouri that will each hold between 5,000 and 10,000 people.

The presumed location of the Chester processing center was first identified by The Monroe Gazette. The property is owned by an LLC linked to former Trump Advisor Carl Ichan, according to the Albany Times-Union.

The likely lock-up has triggered protests and contentious community meetings in Orange County, where Congressmember Pat Ryan (D) is circulating a petition to attempt to block the facility. 

Town of Chester Supervisor Brandon Holdridge said he was working with Ryan to “disincentivize this rogue, unlawful, and un-American agency from stepping foot in our town.”

Asked about their plans for the Chester warehouse, a spokesperson for ICE declined to provide specifics.

“Every day, DHS is conducting law enforcement activities across the country to keep Americans safe,” a statement from an unnamed spokesperson read. “It should not come as news that ICE will be making arrests in states across the U.S. and is actively working to expand detention space.”

“These will not be warehouses — they will be very well structured detention facilities meeting our regular detention standards.”

Since Trump took office last year, ICE has opened a new 1,000 person facility in Newark called Delaney Hall, entered into new contracts with several upstate county jails to detain dozens more, and sent around 100 detainees at any given time to the Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal prison in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

The Chester facility would continue this trend and further enable ICE’s efforts to make more arrests in the New York City area, said Rosa Cohen-Cruz, the director of Immigration Policy at Bronx Defenders.

“Any increase in local bed space for ICE detention enables ICE to be more aggressive in their raids and their enforcement tactics because they have beds to immediately put people,” she said. “So we’re extremely concerned that New York City residents, New York State residents will really be at heightened risk by this increase in capacity.”

Found on mainstream news.

Brooklyn Navy Yard Redecorated Again

Brooklyn Navy Yard has been redecorated for the 4th time this year. Decorators visited late on Tuesday night, the 38th anniversary of the First Intifada, which was the night before the December 10 board meeting, and @demilitarizebklynnavyyard’s weekly picket and noise demo.

SHUT DOWN EASY AERIAL AND CRYE PRECISION!
They supply IOF, ICE, NYPD, and all US Armed Forces.

WAR PROFITEERS OUT OF BROOKLYN!
Brooklyn Navy Yard is city land! Zohran’s name is about to be on the welcome board 🤭.

FREE PALESTINE!
The ceasefire is a lie! israel’s still striking Gaza and West Bank daily!

FUCK ICE!
The Gestapo is kidnapping and tearing apart families!

Check @demilitarizebklynnavyyard for all the info.

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Reportback from Foiled Nov 29 ICE Raid

ICE’s mass raid of Canal st on Saturday November 29th was bamboozled by rapid response / icewatch groups & normies on the street. This is a reportback about that.

Background:

In the week prior to the raid, community rapid response groups / anti-ice patrols somehow heard that ICE was planning another Canal St operation that would be larger than the first, potentially utilizing hundreds of feds to carry it out. These rapid response groups, though having existed in different iterations since the 2010’s, have had a much more crystallized, effective mode of organizing in the past several months. Most of these groups recently have used autonomous / decentralized methods of organization largely organized by geographic location. While there are formalized “ICE watch” orgs, most are fairly informal and don’t have any social media or other public presence. Through these different groups, there has been a city-wide effort at coordinating for sharing of resources (plate data etc) & for sharing confirmed ICE raids for rapid response. Mentioning this in regards to the Saturday raid is important because while it’s been categorized in the media as a “protest” that people responded to due to a call on social media, that’s really not the case, at least from this perspective.

The broader context for ICE raids in New York is that while ICE has been active, it hasn’t looked the same as many other large cities. For the most part, DHS/ICE has made small snatch and grabs across the boroughs, and notably many arrests in and around the immigration court system in Manhattan. The last attempt at a “flood the streets” mass scoop-up raid was around a month prior, and was also on Canal St targeting vendors there. That one was successful for them in that ICE was able to make several deportation arrests and also have a big photo op, propaganda win of “cleaning up dirty NYC.” That said, there was a community response to that raid as well and it ended with large groups of people chasing the feds back to their house at Federal Plaza. The response to that raid was much more spontaneous and reactive than the most recent one.

Events on Saturday

Due to groups of activists becoming aware of the potential raid, Federal Plaza was likely surveilled to confirm the deployment of ICE cops into the city for staging. The morning of, lots of community activists set to informing vendors & other people near Canal that a large ICE action was imminent. This was the main purpose for people being on Canal, not a demonstration or denunciation of what was about to happen. That said, after that work was complete many people began to gather at a government garage that it had been discovered that ICE was staging at.

At this time, there was no NYPD presence directly around the garage, but it was clear that there were many city cops staged in the area and had been made aware of the raid and asked to do crowd control by ICE. As the morning went on, people on the street also began joining the crowds outside the garage, and at some point a call had gone out on social media that likely brought people out as well. At one point ICE opened the garage door to assess the situation, and the crowd began chanting “ICE OUT OF NEW YORK.”

Very soon after the door opening, soft barricades of trash cans, traffic cones and other trash started appearing in the driveway behind the crowd. NYPD was on the scene at this point, and over the next hour began getting between the Feds & the crowd and started making space for the Feds to potentially egress. While confrontation between NYPD & the crowd starting happening, in the area up the street from the garage a construction dumpster started being unloaded of its contents onto the street. In addition, there were other trash cans, pallets, etc. that moved themselves to be along the potential route of exit to Canal.

This siege continued for several hours, with the ICE agents being trapped inside the garage from 10AM until the early afternoon. NYPD made several arrests in this time, but were largely focused on erecting their barricades to split the crowd in 2-3 groups and prepare the street for the convoy of feds to leave. As time went on it became clear that if ICE was going to attempt a raid anywhere near in Lower Manhattan / Chinatown, these crowds would follow.

When the cars finally began to exit the garage, several brave people sprinted to jump in front of the convoy. This slowed it down enough for other people to begin dragging shit into the street to further hamper the convoy’s exit. The convoy made it to Canal street, and it was extremely chaotic. SRG did their best to be next to them / around them and make arrests and clear the street of trash. While on Canal christmas trees, pallets, trash cans, ad signs, clay pots and more were thrown quickly in the way of the vans. In addition, projectiles were thrown from afar at the vehicles.

Eventually the convoy split in 2 parts, with half going back to Federal Plaza and the other half (mostly the white vans) heading for the Holland Tunnel to Jersey. After the action had ended, community groups continued to monitor canal st / fed plaza in case the feds tried to return. In addition anti-ice patrols happened with increased capacity for the rest of the day and the next in case they tried to do a raid in a different borough. NYPD made about 10 arrests throughout the day, and charged 2 of those people with assaults on officers. For the amount of things that happened and the amount of people that were there, this is a relatively low amount of arrests.

This action seemed to be a huge win for those who have been working hard at building community infrastructure to respond to impending ICE action in NYC. It was encouraging as fuck and really cool to see.

Fuck ICE and the next time they pop their heads up lets hope motherfuckers whack em again. Pretty sure ICE got their tires slashed on Staten Island recently, that is very cool.

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New Yorkers Appear to Foil ICE Raid Before It Begins

November 30, 2025

For the second time in just over a month, a large-scale raid by dozens of immigration agents in New York City was met with a similarly large-scale counter-protest. This time, however, the protesters thwarted the authorities’ plans before they began.

Multiple arrests were made on Saturday during scuffles on the edge of Chinatown, during which hundreds of protesters faced off with federal agents and the New York Police Department (NYPD) as they prepared to launch a raid in the area.

It comes just a month after a raid by 50 federal agents using military-style vehicles stormed Canal Street in Lower Manhattan, and was met with a protest of hundreds in response.

The confrontation also comes amid a reported surge in activity by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the city in recent weeks, despite a friendly encounter between the Mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, and President Donald Trump earlier this month that appeared to avert a showdown over the issue.

But the mass counter-protest of some 200 people demonstrates the challenges federal authorities will face in enforcing President Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown in a city that is rooted in its immigrant identity.

Immigration crackdowns in other cities like Chicago and Portland have been met with similar responses from locals opposed to the Trump Administration’s hardline immigration agenda, but New York could prove to be the toughest challenge yet. 

Saturday’s incident demonstrated how the city’s physical infrastructure —its narrow streets and densely populated areas, built mostly by immigrant labor over the last two centuries—can impede ICE’s so-called “enforcement surges,” which require large numbers of agents moving quickly in and out of an area.

Not only are large-scale ICE raids being met by hundreds of protesters, but in two months, New York will be led by an immigrant mayor for the first time in 50 years. Mamdani, who moved to the United States when he was seven years old, campaigned on protecting New York’s immigrant community from these very same raids.

Agitators’ in ‘goggles’

The confrontation began on Saturday, when agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) gathered in a parking garage in a federal building on the edge of Chinatown in preparation for a raid.

Videos of the incident show protesters blocking the agents as they try to leave the garage in their cars. The crowd then swells to the hundreds, as more NYPD officers arrive.

Later, according to reports, federal agents emerged from the garage and assisted the NYPD in detaining protesters.

The DHS blamed “agitators” for blocking the federal agents in a statement to [news source].

“Following social media posts calling agitators to ICE’s location in New York City, individuals dressed in black clothing with backpacks, face masks, and goggles showed up and began to obstruct federal law enforcement officers including by blocking the parking garage,” the statement said. “NYPD was called and responded to hundreds of violent rioters, which resulted in the arrest of multiple agitators.”

Murad Awawdeh, President of the immigrant advocacy group the New York Immigration Coalition and a member of Mamdani’s transition team, said the protests this weekend were a sign that the city would put up fierce resistance to federal immigration operations.

“New York City is unlike any other place in this country or even the world, and what you have seen yesterday and time and again is that New Yorkers of all stripes, across all creeds, are not going to allow a rogue, lawless, violent and horrific agency to continue to mess with their neighbors.”

The attempted raid in Lower Manhattan comes amid an increase in ICE activity in New York City over the past few weeks. On Oct. 21, in a separate raid on Canal Street, nine people from Africa were taken into custody by ICE agents during what DHS called a “targeted, intelligence-driven enforcement operation…focused on criminal activity relating to selling counterfeit goods.” The raid, which involved more than 50 federal agents, also led to the arrest of five protestors after people reportedly attempted to chase federal agents away. The DHS claimed protestors were blocking vehicles and obstructing law enforcement duties.

In recent weeks, ICE agents have been spotted with greater frequency in immigrant neighborhoods of Corona in Queens, Washington Heights in Manhattan, and Sunset Park in Brooklyn.

Activists in those neighborhoods have responded to the increased ICE activity by organizing community alert systems, such as handing out whistles to be used when agents are seen in the area. The strategies resemble ICE Watch in other cities hit especially hard by Trump’s immigration crackdown, such as Chicago, where groups like Protect Rogers Park enlist community members to follow and report on ICE activity in the area.

Found on mainstream news.