Watch: Trump Tower occupied by anti-ICE protesters

Telegraph

4 hours ago

Activists temporarily occupied Trump Tower to protest the arrest and deportation of illegal migrants.
Around 20 protesters sat on the ground floor of the New York skyscraper, protesting against ICE raids aimed at detaining illegal migrants. Such raids led to protests and violent clashes in California over the weekend.
Footage on social media showed the group holding signs including 'defend the constitution' and 'no job site raids' alongside pictures of recently deported migrants.
After refusing to move, they were quickly detained by police who used zip ties to restrain their hands before removing them from Trump Tower, once the primary residence of the president, and placing them into waiting NYPD vans.
One sign held by a protester read 'free Kilmar,' referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was returned to the US last week after being mistakenly deported to El Salvador's notorious mega prison.
The US Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to 'facilitate' Mr Abrego Garcia's return.
The White House initially refused, insisting Mr Abrego Garcia is a member of the notorious South American gang MS-13, allegations his wife and lawyer have denied.
The demonstration comes after a weekend of violence in Los Angeles where masked protesters smashed and torched self-driving electric cars in riots sparked by immigration raids in the city.
Confrontations began when dozens of protesters gathered outside a federal detention centre demanding the release of 44 people arrested by federal immigration authorities across Los Angeles on Friday.
So far, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is averaging about 1,600 arrests per day.
On Monday, Mr Trump suggested California Governor Gavin Newsom should be arrested over the violence engulfing LA.
'Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, many of them prisoners, are taking up your health care. They're taking up your space in schools, they're taking up your hospitals,' Mr Trump later told reporters.
'And in many cases, they're criminals, and we have to do something about it and we're doing something about it.
'Until we went in, if we didn't do the job that place would be burning down, just like the houses, burned down, they were in big trouble last night.'