New York City mayoral candidate Brad Lander arrested by ICE at immigration listening to

Jun 18, 2025 07:15 AM IST Brad Lander was arrested for assaulting a regulation enforcement officer, in keeping with a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security. New York City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested exterior of immigration courtroom in decrease Manhattan. Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander speaks throughout a Democratic mayoral main debate, at NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Center studios in New York on June 4, 2025. (AFP File) Lander, who’s working in subsequent week’s Democratic main for mayor, was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers Tuesday, in keeping with his marketing campaign.  The comptroller, 55, was escorting a defendant out of courtroom, his marketing campaign mentioned. Lander was there to look at immigration hearings and maintain a media occasion to advertise extra authorized funding to help immigrants, in keeping with his public schedule. Lander was arrested for assaulting a regulation enforcement officer, in keeping with a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes lower than every week after US Senator Alex Padilla of California was forcibly faraway from a press convention and handcuffed after disrupting a media briefing by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles.  Lander was polling in third place with 11% help on the primary spherical of ranked voting forward of the June 24 main, in keeping with an Emerson College ballot launched in May.  Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was additionally arrested within the waning weeks of the 2013 mayoral main race, when he was protesting the closing of Brooklyn’s Long Island College Hospital.