Comptroller Brad Lander joins 11 local elected officials inside lower Manhattan’s federal building, demanding access to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) holding area on the building’s 10th floor on September 18, 2025, in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) — Several elected officials in New York were arrested Thursday during a protest at an immigration office in Manhattan, according to local media reports and the Department of Homeland Security. In a statement, DHS confirmed that a total of 71 people were arrested during the protest Thursday, including Lander, two New York state senators and nine New York State Assembly members. '”New York ABC station WABC reported Lander and the other elected officials who were arrested would be given police summonses and then be released. Lander was arrested during a protest in June after being accused of assaulting a law enforcement officer.