Mayor says Ice should not target undocumented people in New York City
Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. We start with the news that the mayor of New York City has said that the city has had “no involvement” in the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) raids in Chinatown related to “selling counterfeit goods”.
Mayor Eric Adams shared a social media post from the New York police department (NYPD) after it distanced itself from the raids, saying that it had “no involvement in the federal operation that took place on Canal Street this afternoon”.
Adams quote-tweeted the NYPD’s missive and emphasized:
New York City does not cooperate with federal law enforcement on civil deportations, in accordance with our local laws.
While 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.
Hundreds showed up to protests that broke out in New York City on Tuesday evening after Ice raids related to “selling counterfeit goods” were conducted in the Chinatown neighborhood earlier in the day and resulted in an unknown number of people being detained.
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 “Ice out of New York” and “No Ice, no KKK, no fascist USA.”
Videos of the raid show 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.
“Is this worth the paycheck? Selling your soul?” one woman can be heard shouting at agents.
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 – often to tourists.
It was unclear how many people were detained in the raid, but a witness told the New York Daily News that he saw at least seven individuals taken into custody.
Read the full story here:
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Paul Ingrassia, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead a government ethics office, withdrew from consideration, after the publication of racist text messages caused Republican senators to say they would not vote to confirm him.
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Arizona’s attorney general is suing the House speaker, Mike Johnson, over his refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat who won a congressional special election in September.
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Trump seemed to confirm a report that he is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for the thwarted legal cases against him. “I guess they probably owe me a lot of money for that,” he told reporters.
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Despite recently announcing a summit in Budapest, there are now no plans for Trump to meet with Vladmir Putin “in the immediate future”, a White House official told the Guardian.
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Trump repeated his wildly false claim that the city of Portland, Oregon is beset by fires started by protesters. “I looked at Portland over the weekend. The place is burning down,” the president claimed, apparently referring to a chemical attack on protesters by federal officers.
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Trump is expected to hold talks at the White House with Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte. The military alliance has been coordinating deliveries of weapons to Ukraine, many of them bought from the United States by Canada and European countries.
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JD Vance, on a visit to Israel, said that he would not “put an explicit deadline” on Hamas to comply with the key points of the Gaze ceasefire deal.
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Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman and former US marine campaigning to be the Democrats’ candidate in next year’s US Senate race, said “I’m not a secret Nazi” and that he didn’t know the historical associations of the skull and crossbones tattoo he got on his chest in 2007.
Key events
Donald Trump is at the White House today, per his official schedule.
The president’s only listed event is his meeting with Nato secretary general Mark Rutte at 4pm ET. Currently that meeting is closed to the press, but we’ll let you know if that opens up.
New Hampshire Republican John E. Sununu announced a campaign for US Senate on Wednesday, hoping to reclaim a seat he lost nearly two decades ago and boosting the GOP’s chances of regaining a foothold in a region overwhelmingly represented by Democrats.
Sununu, 61, is seeking the Republican nomination for the seat being vacated by US Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat who ousted him in 2008. His decision sets up a primary featuring two former senators: Republican Scott Brown, who represented Massachusetts before moving to New Hampshire and losing to Shaheen in 2014, has been running since June.
“Maybe you’re surprised to hear that I’m running for the Senate again. I’m a bit surprised myself,” Sununu said in a video announcement. “Why would anyone subject themselves to everything going on there right now? Well, somebody has to step up and lower the temperature. Somebody has to get things done.”
Senate Republicans, who hold a 53-47 advantage, are defending seats in Ohio, Maine and North Carolina against a slate of high-profile Democratic candidates. But Republicans are also on the offensive in places like Michigan, Georgia and now, increasingly, New Hampshire – and if they flip one of those seats it will probably put the chamber out of reach for Democrats until at least 2028.
Sununu must first win the primary though, and his past opposition to President Donald Trump could be problematic. While Brown has aligned himself closely with Trump and served as his US ambassador to New Zealand, Sununu backed Nikki Haley in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, writing an op-ed calling Trump a “loser.”
Trump went on to win New Hampshire’s leadoff primary, but the state’s voters rejected him for a third time in the general election. And while Republicans control the Statehouse and governor’s office, Democrats have held all four of New Hampshire’s congressional seats since 2017.
Sununu served three terms in the US House before being elected to the Senate at age 38. He’s now the same age Shaheen was when she defeated him and is 16 years older than US Rep. Chris Pappas, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. Sununu said Congress has become “loud, dysfunctional, even angry” in his time away, but said he hopes to return “to help calm the waters,” while focusing on the economy, veterans, health care costs and Social Security.
Pappas’ campaign countered that he is the one who has been fighting to lower costs for working families, seniors and small businesses while Sununu has spent years “cashing in and making millions selling out to corporations and working for special interests”.
Mayor says Ice should not target undocumented people in New York City
Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. We start with the news that the mayor of New York City has said that the city has had “no involvement” in the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) raids in Chinatown related to “selling counterfeit goods”.
Mayor Eric Adams shared a social media post from the New York police department (NYPD) after it distanced itself from the raids, saying that it had “no involvement in the federal operation that took place on Canal Street this afternoon”.
Adams quote-tweeted the NYPD’s missive and emphasized:
New York City does not cooperate with federal law enforcement on civil deportations, in accordance with our local laws.
While 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.
Hundreds showed up to protests that broke out in New York City on Tuesday evening after Ice raids related to “selling counterfeit goods” were conducted in the Chinatown neighborhood earlier in the day and resulted in an unknown number of people being detained.
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 “Ice out of New York” and “No Ice, no KKK, no fascist USA.”
Videos of the raid show 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.
“Is this worth the paycheck? Selling your soul?” one woman can be heard shouting at agents.
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 – often to tourists.
It was unclear how many people were detained in the raid, but a witness told the New York Daily News that he saw at least seven individuals taken into custody.
Read the full story here:
In other developments:
-
Paul Ingrassia, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead a government ethics office, withdrew from consideration, after the publication of racist text messages caused Republican senators to say they would not vote to confirm him.
-
Arizona’s attorney general is suing the House speaker, Mike Johnson, over his refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat who won a congressional special election in September.
-
Trump seemed to confirm a report that he is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for the thwarted legal cases against him. “I guess they probably owe me a lot of money for that,” he told reporters.
-
Despite recently announcing a summit in Budapest, there are now no plans for Trump to meet with Vladmir Putin “in the immediate future”, a White House official told the Guardian.
-
Trump repeated his wildly false claim that the city of Portland, Oregon is beset by fires started by protesters. “I looked at Portland over the weekend. The place is burning down,” the president claimed, apparently referring to a chemical attack on protesters by federal officers.
-
Trump is expected to hold talks at the White House with Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte. The military alliance has been coordinating deliveries of weapons to Ukraine, many of them bought from the United States by Canada and European countries.
-
JD Vance, on a visit to Israel, said that he would not “put an explicit deadline” on Hamas to comply with the key points of the Gaze ceasefire deal.
-
Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman and former US marine campaigning to be the Democrats’ candidate in next year’s US Senate race, said “I’m not a secret Nazi” and that he didn’t know the historical associations of the skull and crossbones tattoo he got on his chest in 2007.
