No fewer than a dozen elected officials — people chosen by the voters to seats in government to represent their interests — came to 26 Federal Plaza on Thursday seeking answers about ICE’s treatment of immigrant detainees being held there.

They were not only denied entry to the 10th-floor holding area, where many detainees are supposedly being held despite ICE’s continued denials, but the lawmakers also staged a protest over the federal agency’s continued obfuscation about the fate of the immigrants in its custody.

For their trouble, ICE agents arrested these elected officials, including City Comptroller Brad Lander — whom agents arrested in an infamously hostile way back in June. Lander and the other lawmakers did not resist arrest on Sept. 18, cooperated with officials, and were releas

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