For the second straight day, thousands of New Yorkers joined a national wave of protests calling for an end to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests and immigration raids.

The crowd surged through Lower Manhattan, shutting down intersections.


What You Need To Know

  • For the second straight day, thousands of New Yorkers joined a national wave of protests calling for an end to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests and immigration raids

  • In recent weeks, ICE agents have arrested migrants just moments after their cases were dismissed in immigration court, as well as a surge of raids across the country

  • Police say dozens of people were arrested throughout the evening

At Reade Street and Broadway, outside the Jacob Javits Federal Building where ICE arrests continue to take place, police say dozens of protesters were taken into custody.

“This regime is just an abomination, and it disgusts me so deeply, I mean, in my marrow. I will do anything that I can do to protest it,” Brooklyn resident Jake Macphal said.

In recent weeks, ICE agents have arrested migrants just moments after their cases were dismissed in immigration court, as well as in a surge of raids across the country.

“I can’t sit by and let this continue to happen not just because it’s our students, but because it’s our neighbors,” East Harlem resident Melissa Ettman said.

The message was clear from chants to signs: “ICE out of New York.”

Protesters say this is about more than politics — it’s personal.

“I can’t believe 'he who shall not be named’ has been in office barely half a year, and the amount of terror he’s inflicted on people is just unbelievable to me,” Brooklyn resident Pyeng Threadgill said.

Across the city and across the country, the energy is growing. Some in the city say it’s starting to feel like another Civil Rights era.

“It’s going to be like it was in the '60s. You’re going to have to get people in the streets. You’re going to have to win hearts and minds. You’ve got to vote, but you can’t lie down,” Williamsburg resident Ralph Franco said.

For many, that means showing up again.

“This is how the world changes, right? This is how liberation and freedom and justice happens — is through solidarity and banding together,” Brooklyn resident Aline Gue said.