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Global News
2 hours ago
- Politics
- Global News
Trump running a ‘fascist regime': Brad Lander reacts after ICE arrest
New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander has spoken out against U.S. President Donald Trump, accusing him of operating a 'fascist regime,' after being detained by immigration authorities at a Manhattan courthouse. Lander was accompanying an immigrant out of a courtroom on Tuesday when masked federal agents apprehended him. Footage of the chaotic incident shows Lander being manhandled by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as he and a group of his staff walked with a man, whom he later identified as Edgardo, from his hearing. In the video, Lander can be heard asking federal agents if they have a judicial warrant. 'I will let go when you show me the judicial warrant…. Where is it?' he says, encircled by masked agents. Story continues below advertisement 'You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens,' he told officials as they cuffed his hands behind his back. At a press conference shortly after his arrest, Lander's wife, Meg Barnette, who recalled being 'shoved out of the way' during the incident, said her husband was 'swarmed by a number of federal agents' when he tried to link arms with a man after his immigration court hearing was dismissed. Edgardo was also arrested and taken to an ICE detention facility, Lander said in an interview after being released. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy After being released, Lander told political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen on Tuesday that he was held in a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) detention facility for about three-and-a-half hours, but swiftly turned his attention to the man he was trying to help. View image in full screen New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is placed under arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and FBI agents outside federal immigration court on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in New York. Olga Fedorova / The Associated Press 'I'm going to sleep at home in my bed tonight, safe with my family. But Edgardo, who I was trying to accompany, he is in ICE detention. God knows where he's going to sleep tonight … and who knows in what state? He has no lawyer. No one even knows to look for him. He has been stripped of his due process rights, and the right asylum seekers have to present the credible fear of persecution, ' he said. Story continues below advertisement .@bradlander: "I was in a DHS detention for about 3.5 hours… I'm going to sleep at home in my bed tonight, safe with my family. But at Edgardo, who I was trying to accompany, he is in ICE detention. God knows where he's going to sleep tonight… And who knows what state. He has… — Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) June 18, 2025 Lander has made several trips to immigration court in recent weeks, after DHS changed its practices by dismissing asylum cases, which Lander told CNN equates to 'stripping people of their asylum seeker status' and subjects them to 'expedited removal' from the U.S., adding later on X that 'we will all be worse off if we let Donald Trump and his fascist regime undermine the rule of law.' We will all be worse off if we let Donald Trump and his fascist regime undermine the rule of law. — Brad Lander (@bradlander) June 18, 2025 Story continues below advertisement Lander said he will keep returning to court 'week after week so make sure the people's rights are protected.' He is a candidate in New York's Democratic mayoral primary. Early voting in the contest is underway, with the election set for next week.
Yahoo
5 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
New York City mayoral candidate Brad Lander arrested by Ice agents
Brad Lander, New York City's comptroller and a mayoral candidate, was arrested on Tuesday by masked federal agents while visiting an immigration court and accompanying a person out of a courtroom. In a statement to the Guardian, assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin from the Department of Homeland Security said Lander 'was arrested for assaulting law enforcement and impeding a federal officer'. Upon his release, Lander said he 'certainly did not' assault an officer. Lander appeared at 26 Federal Plaza to observe immigration hearings involving individuals marked for potential deportation. He told an Associated Press reporter that he was there to 'accompany' some immigrants out of the building. Tuesday's trip to an immigration court was Lander's third over the last month. He was arrested, according to video footage of the incident, as he and his staff walked with an immigrant – who Lander later identified as 'Edgardo' – who had their case dismissed pending appeal earlier in the day, per AMNY. Lander can be seen and heard in videos of the incident asking the immigration officials if they have a judicial warrant. Additional footage of the arrest shows Lander telling the officials: 'I'm not obstructing. I'm standing right here in the hallway. I asked to see the judicial warrant. Lander appears to be holding on to Edgardo's shoulder as the officials move him towards an elevator. 'I will let go when you show me the judicial warrant,' says Lander. The officials, two of whom were wearing masks, then pinned Lander to a wall and put him in handcuffs. 'You don't have the authority to arrest US citizens asking for a judicial warrant,' Lander can be heard saying. Immigration lawyers told the New York Times that officials do not need judicial warrants to make arrests in immigration courts because they are public spaces. Lander's wife posted an update on her husband's Twitter/X account less than an hour after the incident. 'Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife,' she wrote, adding: 'While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.' In a news conference after the arrest, Barnette said she was 'extraordinarily proud' of her husband and called the ordeal 'shocking and unacceptable'. Masked agents from several federal agencies were seen lining the halls of 26 Federal Plaza on Tuesday morning, including Ice, Enforcement and Removal Operations, the FBI and the treasury department, according to reporters on the scene from the City. Video and news of the arrest made the rounds on social media. Zohran Mamdani, a mayoral candidate who also cross-endorsed Lander, called out the arrest on X: 'This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.' Julia Salazar, a New York state senator, called the arrest 'more evidence that Ice agents are flagrantly breaking the law'. '[Lander] knows his rights, and he was speaking up for the rights of others. Ice agents responded by unlawfully arresting him and refusing to answer basic questions,' she said. Andrew Cuomo, former New York governor and Lander's mayoral opponent, wrote on X that the arrest is 'the latest example of the extreme thuggery of Trump's ICE out of control – one can only imagine the fear families across our country feel when confronted with ICE. Fear of separation, fear of being taken from their schools, fear of being detained without just cause. This is not who we are. This must stop, and it must stop now.' Mamdani also appeared at the aforementioned pop-up press conference that Barnette spoke at, telling the crowd: 'We have to be clear that, in [Lander's] ask and in their response, we saw that Ice has no interest in the law, it has no interest in order. '[Ice] only has an interest in terrorizing people across this country. In this exact moment, New Yorkers and Americans are looking to leaders to meet this moment, to showcase the courage that is necessary,' he said, before adding: 'This is not about an election. This is about ensuring that we protect the city and the country that we love. This is about ensuring that immigrant New Yorkers who come here for regular check-ins do not need to fear being separated from their families in the most brutal and cruel ways imaginable. We know that today's arrest is but one example of what Ice is doing every single day across this country.' A demonstration broke out outside 26 Federal Plaza on Tuesday afternoon, with a crowd of supporters shouting 'free Brad Lander'. Protesters held up placards saying 'fascist minion' and 'immigrants are New York' while surrounded by a tight cordon of police and metal barricades. Public entry to the building was closed despite it being a public building. New York's governor, Kathy Hochul, called the arrest 'bullshit' on social media and to reporters. She later said in a news conference that the charges against Lander had been dropped late on Tuesday afternoon. 'To my knowledge, there are no charges. The charges have been dropped. He walked out of there a free man,' she said. Upon his release, Lander said at the same news conference that he was 'just fine' and only 'lost a button'. He went on to add that this was not the case for Edgardo, the man who'se arrest he was challenging. 'Edgardo is in Ice detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight. So far as I know, he has no lawyer. He has been stripped of his due process rights,' Lander said, later adding: 'We are normalizing family separation. We are normalizing due process rights violations. We are normalizing the destruction of constitutional democracy, and we're not going to stand by and let it happen.' Lander's arrest comes as federal immigration officials continue to make arrests outside immigration courtrooms across the US. As the Guardian reported on Sunday, between early January, right before the inauguration, and June, there has been an 807% increase in the arrest of immigrants with no criminal record. The arrest also bore similarities to that of Alex Padilla, a Democratic California senator and vocal critic of the Trump administration's immigration polices, who was forcibly removed and handcuffed as he attempted to ask a question at a press conference held by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, in Los Angeles last week. Much like the criticism of Lander's arrest, Padilla's arrest was widely lambasted, with Kamala Harris, the former vice-president, calling the incident 'a shameful and stunning abuse of power'. Lander's arrest was also just one week before the Democratic primary for mayor. His opponents include Cuomo, Mamdani, Adrienne Adams, Scott Stringer, Michael Blake and others. Along with Mamdani, Hochul, Stringer, Blake and Adams showed up to support Lander at the site where he was arrested. Hochul was later seen inside 26 Federal Plaza seeking answers from Ice about the arrest. 'How long is this going to take, I don't think he has a long rap sheet,' she reportedly said to agents. Ed Pilkington contributed reporting
The Guardian
9 hours ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
Trump overseeing a ‘fascist regime' says Brad Lander after arrest
Update: Date: 2025-06-18T08:51:50.000Z Title: Opening summary: Trump overseeing a 'fascist regime', says Lander Content: Brad Lander, New York City's comptroller and a mayoral candidate, has lashed out at Donald Trump and 'his fascist regime', after he was arrested on Tuesday by masked federal agents while visiting an immigration court and accompanying a person out of a courtroom. Posting on X, Lander wrote: We will all be worse off if we let Donald Trump and his fascist regime undermine the rule of law. Lander was arrested, according to video footage of the incident, as he and his staff walked with an immigrant – who he later identified as 'Edgardo' – who had their case dismissed pending appeal earlier in the day, per AMNY. Lander can be seen and heard in videos of the incident asking the immigration officials if they have a judicial warrant. Additional footage of the arrest shows Lander telling the officials: I'm not obstructing. I'm standing right here in the hallway. I asked to see the judicial warrant. In a statement to the Guardian, assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin from the Department of Homeland Security said Lander 'was arrested for assaulting law enforcement and impeding a federal officer'. Upon his release, Lander said he 'certainly did not' assault an officer. In an interview with CNN after his arrest, Lander said: All I was trying to do was the things I had done [in] the prior two weeks of just accompany people out to safety. That was my goal today. I sure did not go with any intention of getting arrested. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is expected to meet Pakistan's army chief, Asim Munir, for talks today. The meeting is expected to take place in the White House cabinet room at 1pm Washington time. It comes after India's prime minister Narendra Modi told Trump late on Tuesday that a ceasefire between India and Pakistan after a four-day conflict in May was achieved through talks between the two militaries and not US mediation. Trump had said last month that the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours agreed to a ceasefire after talks mediated by the US, and that the hostilities ended after he urged the countries to focus on trade instead of war. 'PM Modi told President Trump clearly that during this period, there was no talk at any stage on subjects like India-US trade deal or US mediation between India and Pakistan,' Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri said in a press statement, according to Reuters. More on both of these stories in a moment, but first, here are some other developments: Israel's war on Iran appeared to be approaching a pivotal moment on Tuesday night after five days of bombing and retaliatory Iranian missile strikes, as Donald Trump demanded 'unconditional surrender' from Tehran and weighed his military options. Trump convened a meeting of his national security team in the White House situation room after a day of febrile rhetoric in which the president gave sharply conflicting signals over whether US forces would participate directly in Israel's bombing campaign in Iran. An unlikely coalition of lawmakers has moved to prevent the president from involving US forces in the conflict without Congress's approval. Republican congressman Thomas Massie, whose libertarian-tinged politics have often put him at odds with Trump, joined several progressive Democrats to introduce in the House of Representatives a war powers resolution that would require a vote by Congress before Trump could attack Iran. Democrat Tim Kaine has introduced companion legislation in the Senate. 'Effective today, I am lifting the curfew in downtown Los Angeles,' the city's mayor, Karen Bass, said in a statement on Tuesday afternoon. A federal judge in Boston ruled that transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity during litigation that seeks to overturn Trump's executive order that US passports must conform to the sex citizens were assigned at birth. Ukrainian diplomats have been left frustrated – and in some cases embittered – at Donald Trump's refusal to make Ukraine a priority after Volodymyr Zelenskyy flew 5,000 miles to the G7 conference in Canada only for the US president to return home the night before the two leaders were due to meet. Trump said he needed to focus on the Israel-Iran conflict. Donald Trump has abandoned his brief immigration and customs enforcement (Ice) reprieve for farm and hotel workers, ordering the agency's raids in those sectors to resume after hardliners crushed a pause that lasted just four days. A federal appeals court in San Francisco heard arguments on Tuesday in Trump v Newsom, to determine whether the Trump administration must return control of the California national guard troops deployed to Los Angeles by Trump to the state's governor during protests over federal immigration raids. Bernie Sanders has endorsed the leftwing New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in the latest boost to his insurgent campaign.
Miami Herald
26-03-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
WareSpace says it has a better way to rent cheap workshops, shipping centers in Philly
Tucked in a former textile-manufacturing section of the Philadelphia's East Falls section, an open warehouse space is home to a paintball-goggle maker, an online glass distributor, a seamstress, and other small-business founders. It's the two-year-old, newly-expanded Philadelphia center of WareSpace, which is taking the U.S. warehouse boom into the small-business sector. The Columbia, Maryland-based company, founded by veteran developers and financed by private-equity investors, adapts unwanted former factory and office buildings into rows of mini-warehouses. Demand is strong, two of the company's founders said on a recent visit to their East Falls space. It took less than two years to fill the first 100 bedroom- and living-room-sized warehouse spaces at the East Falls center. The company opened another section in January, with 30 more spaces, and has filled more than half already. Prices start around $700 a month, for spaces ranging from 200 to 2,000 square feet. The payment includes building maintenance, real estate taxes, property insurance, WiFi, dumpster use, package receiving, and cleaning. "We offer full-infrastructure commercial space, in the place between where self-storage stops and traditional warehouses begin," said Joseph Ely, cofounder and chief operating officer of WareSpace. The idea is to make moving in a one-day task, and consolidate all the services that make leasing space a headache for small business owners. Cohen and Ely worked together in their previous careers at Beco Management, a Maryland-based real estate developer, and started WareSpace in 2022 with more than $100 million from Jadian Capital, a Stamford, Conn.-based real estate investor. What's inside? A walk through the East Falls building found some tenant-owners at work. Edgardo and Wilma Borges were stretching fabric over padded frames at Alora's Upholstery. They have been reupholstering furniture since they were students in Anthony Fittipaldi's shop class at Thomas Edison High School in 1990. Two years ago they moved their business, named for their granddaughter, from their home to WareSpace, and they have already expanded. "The furniture you buy new today, people know it doesn't last," Edgardo said. "They know when they buy from us, it's going to last, and pay for itself." Will Wu has been running EZ Design, a business-to-business distributor of fancy whisky glasses and decanters, since graduating from Stony Brook University three years ago with a degree in philosophy and math. "I wanted to try something different from academia," he said, so he moved to Philadelphia and began looking for space when his wife got into a University of Pennsylvania graduate biotech program. He found WareSpace in a Google search. Wu says he sources his glass from people his cofounder knows in China, where U.S. tariffs are scheduled to double soon, to 40%. He'll stay with his sources for now, "because I trust them," but he hopes in time the business will grow to where it's sourcing from additional places. He's confident in the future: "I'm looking for a new etching machine." Ely says his little-warehouse industry has been boosted by the push by Washington, D.C. policymakers to "bring manufacturing back to America" and the rapid construction of highly-visible, full-size warehouses along major highways by big shippers like Amazon. More than a quarter of WareSpace tenants - in Philadelphia and nationally - are e-commerce businesses finishing and shipping value-added products to buyers; others are building contractors, vending-service suppliers, furniture repair, and sign maker shops. National competitors include mini-warehouse managers ReadySpaces, Saltbox, and Cubework. Cohen says WareSpace is unusual in that it buys all its centers; investors are betting not just on its revenue but on the properties' rising value over time. A walk down a corridor in East Falls with facility manager Stephen Shinn takes a visitor past the doors of PhillySnaps, an entertainment photographer; the local office of PuroClean disaster remediation, an East Coast chain ready to respond to accidents at any hour; Thirty Three Threads, which makes straps for paintball goggles; and distribution bases for Burnt Mills Cider, Pure Fuel Energy Drink and The Herbal Zen. There's AlumniQ, a software company aimed at higher education events; Petunia Rocks is a gothic fashion merchandiser; and Door Tek, which manufactures and installs windows and doors. Alex's Lemonade, the Main Line-based charity, has a workroom for community fundraisers. Cofounder and CEO Levi Cohen says they turn down "obnoxiously loud or stinky" businesses that would drive neighbors away. Motor vehicles including forklifts are forbidden in the neat indoor lanes. WareSpace provides wheeled hand-pumped pallet jacks to move loads between loading dock and six-by-eight-foot doorways to each rental space, plus other simple tools. Why Philadelphia? WareSpace also has locations in Maryland, Georgia, Texas, Minnesota and Illinois. Next targets are in the Rocky Mountain states: Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Denver. "We go in markets that have a high concentration of people," which also means a higher population of veteran and aspiring small-business owners, said Cohen. The 175,000-square-foot building WareSpace owns, some of which is leased to a gym and other businesses, has factory-quality electrical service capable of delivering more power than the warehouse tenants need, but not enough outdoor pavement to turn a lot of tractor-trailers, as current full-size warehouse users demand. So it was perfect for conversion into small warehouses, according to Cohen. "That's what we do, we repopulate dated buildings that are challenged" to continue with their previous uses, Ely said. "We've also converted offices and retail" to similar small-warehouse rows. From WareSpace's perspective, Philadelphia is a good place for the small businesses that are the company's target tenant: Adding taxes, utility, maintenance and other standard costs, total expenses for the basket of services WareSpace offers here are mostly at or below national averages, Cohen says. _____ Copyright (C) 2025, Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Portions copyrighted by the respective providers.
