City Comptroller Brad Lander and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams were among over a dozen city and state elected officials who federal agents arrested on Thursday afternoon in and around federal immigration courts in Lower Manhattan.

Lander was arrested by Department of Homeland Security agents, along with a group of nine other elected officials, after sitting in a hallway with a banner outside the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza lockup, where DHS has been holding undocumented immigrants it has detained. The officials unfurled the banner after demanding access to the holding cells and being forcefully denied entry by DHS agents.

According to Lander's office, the feds also arrested state Sens. Julia Salazar (D-Brooklyn) and Jabari Birsport (D-Brooklyn) as well as Assembly Members Marcela M

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