New York mayor’s candidate was detained by federal agents at the Immigration Court

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The best financial official in New York City and the candidate mayor Brad Lander were held by law enforcement agents on Tuesday while trying to accompany one of the defendants from the Immigration Court, according to his spokesperson.

A The video was published At the account of Lander’s X, the financial observer, who runs in the mayor’s preliminary elections, shows the hands and accompanying hands. It can be heard, “You do not have the authority to arrest American citizens.”

Lander’s arrest, the gradual competitor in the preliminary elections, confirms the increasing political temperature in response to the deportation of President Donald Trump with protests and skirmishes with the authorities throughout the country.

This comes a few days after the removal of the American Democratic Senator Alex Badilla by force and her hand by federal agents at a press conference in Los Angeles held by Trump’s Internal Security Security Secretary, Christie Nayyv.

The US Prosecutor’s Office for the southern region of New York has been investigating.

He said: “The safety and security of official procedures, government officials, law enforcement employees, and all members of the public who participate in it are the main axis of our office.”

It was not clear why Lander tried to accompany the defendant outside the court. “While accompanying a defendant from the Federal Migration Court, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained” by officers from the United States for Migration and Customs Enforcement, the role of Picke, a spokesman for the Lander campaign, told the Financial Times.

A statement published in the X account of the US Department of Internal Security, who is supervising the ICE, said that Lander was arrested on charges of attacking the law and impeding a federal officer. He was released on Tuesday afternoon.

Democratic introductory elections are often seen as the main electoral competition for the mayor’s office, where a few Republican candidates get traction with voters in New York City. Former ruler Andrew Komo, who resigned from his position in 2021 amid allegations of harassment, is a A major competitor to the officeAlong with Lander’s progressive colleague Zahran Mamdani.

Lander’s competitors condemned the ice race and demanded his immediate release.

Komo said: “This is the latest example of the extremist ice of Trump’s snow outside the scope of control – one can only imagine that the families of fear throughout our country feel when facing the ice.”

“The arrest of Brad Lander is the result of the authoritarian crisis facing New York City under Donald Trump and all those who enable him. You must celebrate the defense of our migrant neighbors, and we do not grow into calm – they are not time.