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2 days ago
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Protesters decrying ICE arrests taken into custody in lower Manhattan
NEW YORK — Multiple demonstrators were taken into custody Saturday afternoon during a protest against Immigration and Customs enforcement in Lower Manhattan in response to ongoing migrant arrests this week. Cops responded to outside immigration court around noon at 26 Federal Plaza where protesters were sitting in the middle of the street blocking traffic. Officers ordered the protesters to clear the roadway. Numerous protesters were taken into custody when they didn't comply and were issued summonses, cops said. Demonstrators were chanting during the protest 'No ICE! No KKK! No fascist USA' at the ICE agents. Around 17 people were taken into custody, according to ABC7. The protests come after federal agents have been rounding up migrants all week at the immigration courthouse. ICE agents also arrested migrants after they checked in at an Intensive Supervision Appearance Program office hearing on Elk St. Wednesday afternoon, according to the New York Legal Assistance group. "It's essentially a trap,' Allison Cutler, supervising attorney from New York Legal Assistance Group's Immigrant Protection Unit, told the Daily News Wednesday. 'Most of the folks who are already on ISAP tend to already have final orders of removal, so ICE would essentially … consider (it) as an easy target. So they are already checking in, they are already having appointments, most of them have ankle monitors, so they are monitoring their GPS and locations.' On Tuesday, around 16 people were detained at the Elk St. immigration check-in office, according to The City. On Friday morning, two people were pinned to the ground and arrested by ICE agents who were waiting in the hallways outside federal immigration courtrooms. Dominican Republic migrant Joaquin Rosario Espinal left a courtroom after a routine check-in around 12:35 p.m. after getting his case dismissed, when at least six federal agents waiting outside swarmed him. Two agents grabbed Rosario Espinal by his shirt collar, with one tumbling to the ground along with him. 'Stop fighting! Stop resisting! Stop resisting!' an agent yelled at him. Multiple agents then turned Rosario Espinal around, pinning him to the ground before handcuffing him. Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin of the Department of Homeland Security claimed that, during the arrest, Rosario Espinal resisted arrest and punched an officer. Another woman was arrested after allegedly assaulting an officer, too. 'Our officers are doing their jobs by removing public safety threats and enforcing our nation's immigration laws,' McLaughlin said. 'Assaulting, resisting, impeding or harassing ICE officers is against the law. Unfortunately, our ICE officers are facing a 413% increase in assaults while carrying out arrests. The violence against ICE must end.' The crackdown, dubbed Operation At Large, comes after White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said recently that the administration was setting a goal of 3,000 arrests by ICE each day and that the number could go higher, according to the Associated Press. CBS reported ICE has been logging about 2,000 daily arrests this week, with a total of more than 100,000 migrants taken into custody so far during Trump's second term in office.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Protesters decrying ICE arrests taken into custody in lower Manhattan
NEW YORK — Multiple demonstrators were taken into custody Saturday afternoon during a protest against Immigration and Customs enforcement in Lower Manhattan in response to ongoing migrant arrests this week. Cops responded to outside immigration court around noon at 26 Federal Plaza where protesters were sitting in the middle of the street blocking traffic. Officers ordered the protesters to clear the roadway. Numerous protesters were taken into custody when they didn't comply and were issued summonses, cops said. Demonstrators were chanting during the protest 'No ICE! No KKK! No fascist USA' at the ICE agents. Around 17 people were taken into custody, according to ABC7. The protests come after federal agents have been rounding up migrants all week at the immigration courthouse. ICE agents also arrested migrants after they checked in at an Intensive Supervision Appearance Program office hearing on Elk St. Wednesday afternoon, according to the New York Legal Assistance group. "It's essentially a trap,' Allison Cutler, supervising attorney from New York Legal Assistance Group's Immigrant Protection Unit, told the Daily News Wednesday. 'Most of the folks who are already on ISAP tend to already have final orders of removal, so ICE would essentially … consider (it) as an easy target. So they are already checking in, they are already having appointments, most of them have ankle monitors, so they are monitoring their GPS and locations.' On Tuesday, around 16 people were detained at the Elk St. immigration check-in office, according to The City. On Friday morning, two people were pinned to the ground and arrested by ICE agents who were waiting in the hallways outside federal immigration courtrooms. Dominican Republic migrant Joaquin Rosario Espinal left a courtroom after a routine check-in around 12:35 p.m. after getting his case dismissed, when at least six federal agents waiting outside swarmed him. Two agents grabbed Rosario Espinal by his shirt collar, with one tumbling to the ground along with him. 'Stop fighting! Stop resisting! Stop resisting!' an agent yelled at him. Multiple agents then turned Rosario Espinal around, pinning him to the ground before handcuffing him. Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin of the Department of Homeland Security claimed that, during the arrest, Rosario Espinal resisted arrest and punched an officer. Another woman was arrested after allegedly assaulting an officer, too. 'Our officers are doing their jobs by removing public safety threats and enforcing our nation's immigration laws,' McLaughlin said. 'Assaulting, resisting, impeding or harassing ICE officers is against the law. Unfortunately, our ICE officers are facing a 413% increase in assaults while carrying out arrests. The violence against ICE must end.' The crackdown, dubbed Operation At Large, comes after White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said recently that the administration was setting a goal of 3,000 arrests by ICE each day and that the number could go higher, according to the Associated Press. CBS reported ICE has been logging about 2,000 daily arrests this week, with a total of more than 100,000 migrants taken into custody so far during Trump's second term in office.
Jordan Times
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Jordan Times
US strike on Yemen migrant centre may constitute humanitarian 'violation'
By AFP - May 19,2025 - Last updated at May 19,2025 Rights group Amnesty International urged the United States on Monday to investigate possible violations of international law in a deadly strike on a migrant detention facility in rebel-held Yemen (AFP photo) DUBAI — Rights group Amnesty International urged the United States on Monday to investigate possible violations of international law in a deadly strike on a migrant detention facility in rebel-held Yemen. Last month's attack, which prompted international alarm and was part of the US bombardment campaign against the Iran-backed Huthis, killed 68 people held at a centre for irregular migrants in Saada, the rebel authorities said at the time. Agnes Callamard, Amnesty's secretary-general, said that "the US attacked a well-known detention facility where the Huthis have been detaining migrants." The dead were all migrants from African countries, the Huthis had said. To Callamard, "the major loss of civilian life in this attack raises serious concerns about whether the US complied with its obligations under international humanitarian law." "The US must conduct a prompt, independent and transparent investigation into this air strike," she added. A US defence official had told AFP in the aftermath of the strike that the military launched "battle-damage assessment and inquiry" into "claims of civilian casualties related to the US strikes in Yemen". Amnesty cited people who work with migrants and refugees in Yemen and visited two hospitals that treated the victims, saying that they had seen "more than two dozen Ethiopian migrants" with severe injuries including amputations. The morgues at both hospitals had run out of space, the witnesses told Amnesty. In mid-March, the United States began an intense, near-daily military campaign against the Huthis after they had renewed threats to attack vessels in the vital Red Sea and Gulf of Aden shipping lanes. The campaign ended with a US-Huthi ceasefire agreement earlier this month. The Huthis, who control large swathes of Yemen, began firing on Israel and Israeli-linked shipping in November 2023, weeks into the Gaza war triggered by an attack by the Yemeni rebels' Palestinian ally Hamas. Amnesty said it had analysed satellite imagery and footage from the site of last month's strike on Saada, in Yemen's north. The group said it was "unable to conclusively identify a legitimate military target" within the targeted prison compound, citing Huthi restrictions on independent investigations. "Any attack that fails to distinguish between civilians and civilian objects on the one hand, and legitimate military targets on the other, even within the same compound, constitutes an indiscriminate attack and a violation of international humanitarian law," Amnesty said.
