{"id":322834,"date":"2025-10-22T03:38:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/322834\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T03:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:38:23","slug":"protests-erupt-in-new-york-city-after-ice-raids-chinatown-over-counterfeit-goods-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/322834\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests erupt in New York City after Ice raids Chinatown over \u2018counterfeit goods\u2019 | New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds showed up to protests that broke out in New York<\/a> City on Tuesday evening after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) raids related to \u201cselling counterfeit goods\u201d were conducted in the Chinatown neighborhood earlier in the day and resulted in an unknown number of people being detained.<\/p>\n

Hours after federal agents descended on lower Manhattan, demonstrators were seen assembling near the 26 Federal Plaza Immigration Building where they believed detainees were taken. Many shouted chants including \u201cIce out of New York<\/a>\u201d and \u201cNo Ice, no KKK, no fascist USA.\u201d<\/p>\n

Videos of the raid show<\/a> multiple masked and armed federal agents zip-tying and detaining a man, and shoving away onlookers. Throngs of New Yorkers followed the agents through the streets and down the sidewalks. An armored military vehicle was also seen rolling through the city streets.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs this worth the paycheck? Selling your soul?\u201d one woman can be heard shouting at agents.<\/p>\n

The raid, which onlookers say involved more than 50 federal agents, took place in a well-known area of Manhattan where counterfeit handbags, accessories, jewelry and other goods are sold daily en masse \u2013 often to tourists.<\/p>\n

It was unclear how many people were detained in the raid, but a witness told the New York Daily News<\/a> that he saw at least seven individuals taken into custody.<\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security told the New York Times that the operation was \u201cfocused on criminal activity relating to selling counterfeit goods\u201d. Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for DHS, said the operation was led by the Ice agency, the FBI, US border patrol and others.<\/p>\n

The Guardian has contacted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for comment.<\/p>\n

Murad Awawdeh, vice-president of advocacy at the New York Immigration Coalition, condemned the raid to reporters on Tuesday night and said that between 15 and 40 vendors were arrested. Awawdeh also noted that least two locals were taken into custody for protesting and blocking Ice\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t see these scenes in democracy. You see them in fascist regimes,\u201d Awawdeh told a crowd. \u201cWe need to continue to stand up and fight back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local city council member Christopher Marte told the City<\/a> that he too was alarmed by the agents\u2019 conduct.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe amount of weapons that they had on the street pointed at bystanders, something I\u2019ve never seen in my life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The NYPD distanced itself from the raids, tweeting that<\/a> it had \u201cno involvement in the federal operation that took place on Canal street this afternoon\u201d. However, onlookers noted<\/a> that NYPD riot cops appeared to arrest several people protesting the Ice raid.<\/p>\n

Eric Adams<\/a>, New York City\u2019s mayor, quote-tweeted<\/a> the NYPD\u2019s missive and emphasized: \u201cNew York City does not cooperate with federal law enforcement on civil deportations, in accordance with our local laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we gather details about the situation, New Yorkers should know that we have no involvement. Our administration has been clear that undocumented New Yorkers trying to pursue their American Dreams should not be the target of law enforcement, and resources should instead be focused on violent criminals,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

New York City mayoral candidates Zohran Mamdani<\/a> and Andrew Cuomo<\/a> shared similar notes of criticism, with Mamdani calling<\/a> the raid \u201caggressive and reckless\u201d and Cuomo calling<\/a> it \u201cmore about fear than justice, more about politics than safety\u201d.<\/p>\n

Both men \u2013 and Kathy Hochul<\/a>, New York governor \u2013 took aim at Donald Trump<\/a> directly.<\/p>\n

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\u201c[Donald Trump] claims he\u2019s targeting the \u2018worst of the worst.\u2019 Today his agents used batons and pepper spray on street vendors and bystanders on Canal Street. You don\u2019t make New York safer by attacking New Yorkers,\u201d Hochul wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce again, the Trump administration<\/a> chooses authoritarian theatrics that create fear, not safety. It must stop,\u201d wrote Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s ICE raid in Chinatown was an abuse of federal power by the Trump administration,\u201d wrote Cuomo.<\/p>\n

New York City councilmember Shahana Hanif also condemned the Ice raids in a press conference, saying that politicians across the city and the state were resolutely opposed to Ice raids.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are against Ice\u2019s blatantly violent tactics. Hordes of Ice agents showing up is unacceptable, immoral, unjust,\u201d Hanif said.<\/p>\n

Ice raids with masked agents <\/a>and have become commonplace in immigrant enclaves across the country as have protests against them. Protests against Ice have brought federal crackdowns to cities including Chicago<\/a>, Los Angeles<\/a> and Portland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s Chinatown raid is not the first in the New York City area in recent weeks. A 16 October raid<\/a> in midtown Manhattan was the first known raid on a migrant shelter of the current Trump administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Notably, many Ice raids have come with documented violence. Ice has used extreme force in Chicago<\/a> including pepper balling a priest, pepper-balling the inside of a journalist\u2019s car, and body-slamming a US congressional candidate.<\/p>\n

In New York, an Ice agent was \u201crelieved of his duties\u201d<\/a> after body-slamming a woman to the ground in an immigration court house, but was reportedly back on the job<\/a> shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

Immigrants with no criminal record are now the largest group in Ice detention<\/a>, and the agency has detained at least 170 US citizens in 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds showed up to protests that broke out in New York City on Tuesday evening after Immigration and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":322835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-322834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115415738288904718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}