Raw video available here. Social video available here.
New York—On Thursday, November 13, ICE agents knocked down a family’s door in Queens without announcing themselves. The agents pointed firearms at a mother and her four children, and forcibly removed the mother from her bed.
New York, NY—Yeserday, Judge Mae Avila D'Agostino in the Northern District of New York dismissed the Trump administration’s lawsuit against New York State over limits on federal immigration enforcement at state and local courts. In 2020, the NYS enacted the Protect Our Courts Act and two executive orders that prohibited federal immigration agents from making arrests at courthouses without having a judicial warrant.
New York, NY—Today, New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), elected officials, member organizations, and community leaders held an emergency rally in response to this afternoon’s federal immigration raid on Canal Street in Manhattan's Chinatown. Federal agents from ICE and Homeland Security descended on the neighborhood and detained street vendors and community members.
New York, NY—Today, the NYC Department of Investigation (DOI) released a report stating that the NYC Department of Correction (DOC) – which is part of the Mayoral administration – has violated New York City’s sanctuary law. The 68-page investigation alleges that an NYCDOC investigator assigned to a joint task force with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) provided information on multiple individuals to ICE, which is barred by local sanctuary laws.
New York, NY—Today, Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Lewis Kaplan issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) requiring that ICE meet baseline conditions for holding people on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza including proper spacing, bedding, food, water, hygiene, clean clothes, medication, access to a doctor and legal phone calls.
New York, NY—This morning, NYIC President Murad Awawdeh joined Members of Congress Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), Nydia Velázquez (NY-07), and Dan Goldman (NY10) in an oversight visit to MDC Brooklyn, where over 100 immigrants are now being detained under a new ICE-Bureau of Prisons agreement.
Despite ICE denials, video shows people detained for days in inhumane conditions with no change of clothes or showers
Raw video available here, social video available here
New York—Today, newly released video shows what immigrant New Yorkers have been telling their families and attorneys for months: the 10th Floor of 26 Federal Plaza is an ICE detention facility.
New York, NY—Today, federal judge Michael E. Farbiarz of Federal District Court in Newark ruled that Mahmoud Khalil – a legal permanent resident of the United States and Columbia University student activist – be freed from ICE detention. Khalil has been held in a detention facility in Louisiana for three months solely on the basis of his political speech as a student, during which time his wife gave birth to their first child alone.
New York, NY—As the New York State Legislative session comes to a close for FY26, the State Legislature failed moved the New York for All Act (S2235/A3506) and the Language Access Expansion Act (S5535/A4875) which would protect and defend Immigrant New Yorkers.
New York, NY—Today, the Supreme Court of the State of New York issued a preliminary injunction barring Mayor Eric Adams from opening an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office at Rikers.
Murad Awawdeh, President and CEO, New York Immigration Coalition:
“Justice prevailed in New York City today as Mayor Adams was blocked from launching one more attack on our immigrant neighbors.
