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Ms Diallo had a 2012 removal order but an immigration also granted her "withholding of removal" to Guinea. On Friday, Trump admin attorney argued they wanted to deport her to another country though they hadn't decided which.

A federal judge probed DOJ attorney on why she had been singled out Ms. Diallo. "I don't know, your honor," the attorney said repeatedly. Crowds of supporters packed the courtroom and cheered when a federal judge ordered her immediate release.

Packed Crowd Cheers as Judge Releases Advocate’s Aunt in High-Stakes Immigration Hearing Aissatou Diallo, the aunt of Adama Bah, was released Friday after a judge ripped into the Trump administration’s dubious account of her arrest and efforts to deport a woman who’d lived peacefully in A...

The aunt of Adama Bah, a prominent New York immigrant activist and advocate, was freed from ICE detention today.

She'd been grabbed from line to board a plane at LGA airport two days before Thanksgiving.

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The latest ICE arrest data crunched by data wiz @haidee.bsky.social who found 70% of people arrested by ICE in NYC had no criminal arrests or convictions, a much larger share than the rest of the country.

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Feds Bust into Jackson Heights Apartment Building In Pre-Dawn Raid Dozens of agents wielding assault rifles took two middle-aged, Spanish-speaking people away in cuffs early Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead.

NEW: Federal agents wearing tactical gear and wielding assault rifles busted into an apartment in Jackson Heights Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead, according to eyewitnesses and video obtained by THE CITY.

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ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say he father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say

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NYPD Arrest More Than a Dozen Protesting Homeland Security Agents in Tense Confrontation Dozens of masked federal agents were staging inside a parking lot when a spontaneous group of protesters got word of their presence. The NYPD helped clear a path for the federal agents to leave the ar...

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NYPD Arrest More Than a Dozen Protesting Homeland Security Agents in Tense Confrontation Dozens of masked federal agents were staging inside a parking lot when a spontaneous group of protesters got word of their presence. The NYPD helped clear a path for the federal agents to leave the ar...

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Around two dozen car/vans have sped out of the garage, with NYPD officers clearing the path. One guys tries to stop them, NYPD officers come chasing.

Crowd still gathering, several more NYPD arrests, protesters chant "you don't work for ICE you work for us"

One arrest now.

Feds have retreated into the parking garage, NYPD now warning of arrests.

"all of you are immigrants," one man yells at the agents, he was in SoHo doing some shopping when he heard ICE was here.

Moments ago, feds shove protesters out of the way as more NYPD officers arrive on scene. reporting for @thecity.nyc

NYPD officers arriving now.

"I hope you get the worst fucking hemorrhoids and can never sit down," one protester says heckling the masked feds staring down from the parking garage above.

Happening now near Canal Street, federal agents had been staging inside a fed owned parking garage, now being confronted by a group of protesters. masked agents are looking on from above.

As immigration courthouse ICE arrests have dipped over the past several weeks, seemingly random ICE arrests appear to be on the rise. Attorneys are calling it “a coordinated campaign of race-based stops in largely Hispanic and immigrant neighborhoods in New York City."

Sidewalk Arrests Seize New Yorkers in ICE’s Latest Surge Activists and legal advocates are tracking seemingly random detentions of immigrants on the streets in what they say is a campaign of ethnic profiling.

“I considered myself a strong person, a resilient person, but I’ve never gone through something like this... Leave your family out of nowhere, the uncertainty of what’s going to happen to you."

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The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings

h/t to @samtlevin.bsky.social + @propertyofthepeople.orgwho first obtained the FBI memo.

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NYPD Confirms Involvement in FBI Probe Targeting Volunteer Observers in Immigration Court An FBI document referred to activists at immigration courts as “anarchist violent extremist actors” and cited a "sensitive source with excellent access” to an encrypted chat.

The NYPD is confirming its involvement in an FBI probe targeting volunteer immigration court observers, saying it was part of a “broader counterterrorism investigation" into "a range of possible criminal activities.”

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The ‘Godmother’ of Weed vs. Her Uncle, the DEA Agent Cannabis officials courted a rising pot star to join New York’s legal market. Then a stunning police raid upended everything and shattered her family.

While state officials were courting a talented cannabis grower to join the legal market, her uncle was a former top DEA official who threatened her for growing plants at home. Then police and firefighters swarmed her house in a raid that would shatter her family.

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On Camera, Fed Agents Point Guns at Mother and Four Kids in Queens The agents came looking for a relative who no longer lived in the apartment, the shellshocked mother told THE CITY. Days later, her children are terrified to leave their parents' sides.

VIDEO: Federal Agents Bust Into Queens Apartment, Pointing Guns at Mother and Her Four Kids www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/19/q...

As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.

ICE whistles have made their way to New York.

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The actual most detailed map on how every neighborhood voted via @haidee.bsky.social.

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Explore How Different New Yorkers Voted for Mayor See how voters turned out for Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa in every neighborhood in the city — and by income, housing and transit preference.

you've got to click around on this map, and the graphics here ... it's astounding. @haidee.bsky.social did such a great job with this:

Mamdani's speech ends and Steinway goes wild.

Steinway freaks out at mention of Steinway in Mamdani's victory speech. @thecity.nyc

Astoria is overflowing with Mamdani supporters as he clinches a historic win, read out first draft of that history at @thecity.nyc

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