Outrage mounted and questions remained unanswered after federal agents detained several people on Chinatown’s Canal Street in an aggressive immigration raid.

Advocates push back

Immigrant advocates said they scrambled to respond as masked agents made arrests in the busy street ahead of rush hour.

“This chaos was created by these federal agents who seemingly wanted to start a fight,” said Murad Awawdeh, president of the New York Immigration Coalition. “This was choreographed in the sense of them doing this to get New Yorkers to see that they're doing something, but they're not doing anything for our safety and security.”

Awawdeh said lawyers have been trying to identify the individuals detained so far, without success. The crackdown occurred in an area where vendors regularly sell han

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