For the past two months, 32-year-old Isabelle Brourman has entered 26 Federal Plaza’s immigration court with a large easel and art supplies.

Putting pen to paper inside the facility’s courtrooms and hallways, she has not only illustrated immigrants as they plead their cases, she has also borne witness to masked ICE agents dragging fathers and mothers, daughters and sons out of sight.

Hailing from Pittsburgh, Brourman sought to capture some of the Big Apple's most significant moments in recent history, including the court appearances of Luigi Mangione and the arraignment of President Donald Trump. Yet for Brourman, the ICE seizures at New York’s immigration court system have been such a dramatic and significant point in American history that she believes it has reconceptualized all of her

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