(NEW YORK) -- Several elected officials in New York were arrested Thursday during a protest at an immigration office in Manhattan, according to local media reports and the Department of Homeland Security.
Among those arrested at 26 Federal Plaza -- a government building that houses an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office -- were New York City Comptroller Brad Lander who was arrested at the same location in June while accompanying people to immigration court visits.
Lander posted on social media that he and other elected officials were demanding access to the facility's 10th floor, which operates as a holding facility for detained migrants, "to conduct oversight of conditions in ICE's de facto detention facility."
Earlier this week, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to improve conditions for detained migrants at the holding facility inside the building.