ICE office evacuated after white powder is found
The building houses the city's Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office as well as the Department of Homeland Security, though it is unclear if the suspicious envelope was directed at either office, CBS News reports. Officials quickly evacuated the building and there were no immediate reports of anyone feeling ill, according to NBC 4 New York.
The federal building has been the site of several protests last week, after civil rights groups claimed detainees housed at the ICE facility are not provided with sufficient access to their lawyers or medications, and are forced to endure extreme temperatures.
But the Department of Homeland Security has denied that the building is being used as a detention center and argued that allegations of overcrowding or poor conditions are 'categorically false.' 'It is a processing center where illegal aliens are briefly processed to be transferred to an ICE Detention Facility,' Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told CBS.
'All detainees are provided with proper meals, medical treatment and have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers.' 'As we arrest and remove criminal illegal aliens and public safety threats from the US, ICE has worked diligently to obtain greater necessary detention space while avoiding overcrowding,' she added.
On Tuesday, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan announced he would block the Trump administration from using the federal building to hold migrants unless ICE improves the conditions. Those include delivering several items to the migrants held at the federal building, upon request, such as bedding mats, blankets, clean clothing, feminine hygiene products and necessary medications.
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