Horrified Canal Street vendors recounted on Wednesday the moment their friends and colleagues were arrested by masked ICE agents in a swift and physical raid on Chinatown.

Sidewalks along Canal Street in Lower Manhattan were eerily empty the day after federal agents conducted the sweep of the area and cuffed dozens of vendors, purportedly as a crackdown on counterfeit merchandise sales — something which the feds had traditionally left to the NYPD.

Chaos ensued the afternoon prior as fuming passersby pleaded with the Feds to release the immigrants, only for things to escalate into a brutal clash.

As the dust settled on Oct. 22, Nwa Ngam, who sells sweatshirts on Lafayette Street, recalled watching helplessly on Tuesday as a friend of over a decade and a half was whisked away in handcuffs

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