Prayers, print and protest: How New Yorkers are showing their resistance to ICE detainments in immigration court

Every week for about half a year, two separate groups have converged on 26 Federal Plaza, where masked ICE agents have routinely detained immigrants at their legally mandated court hearings.

One group prays; the other group protests and holds up documented images of detainees printed in amNewYork. The groups are vastly different, but their goals align.

For six months, amNewYork has documented federal agents’ unrelenting and sometimes violent arrests outside of courtrooms on the 12th and 14th floors, and every Thursday, New Yorkers with Rise and Resist gather outside the facility in silent protest.

Some cling to signs, others hold photos taken by amNewYork, and even the cover of the newspaper itself featuring the life of a mother and a young child after the patriarch of the family was ta