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Brad Lander: “They had started a couple of weeks earlier, grabbing people…”

Featuring: Brad Lander, Democratic | New York City Comptroller

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Published | Video Starts at 03:59

But it would be less messy, maybe for the mayor. I don't know. There'd be less people able to visibly get in the way, obstruct arrests and detentions. So They had started a couple of weeks earlier, grabbing people who had showed up for their immigration court hearings just like they were supposed to, and arresting, detaining them completely, lawlessly. It's come out now, almost a year later, that they never had the authority for these arrests. (03:59–04:13)

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Asserts that ICE agents began unlawfully arresting and detaining people attending immigration court hearings.

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