Nearly a dozen New York elected officials were arrested by Department of Homeland Security officers on Thursday afternoon in a protest at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in Lower Manhattan.

The elected officials, mainly members of the state Senate and Assembly, refused to leave the premises after being refused entry into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding rooms for detained immigrants on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza.

The sprawling site, home to federal government operations including immigration court, has been a flashpoint in the Trump administration's "mass deportation" initiative. As a matter of routine, immigrants leaving the immigration courtroom have been arrested by ICE agents after their cases are dismissed by judges.

Among the officials arrested was cit

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