U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were targeting people applying for legal immigration status Wednesday at a Hauppauge federal building, according to lawyers, activists and a friend of those arrested.

In separate incidents on Wednesday morning, ICE arrested two men moments after they left the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Application Support Center on Wheeler Road, a lawyer and friend said.

The USCIS processes applications of people pursuing immigration, naturalization, green cards and citizenship, while ICE — also housed under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security — enforces federal immigration law.

The men were applicants in an immigration process that can take years.

At around 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, a 30-year-old man, later identified by his attorney as

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