❓WHAT HAPPENED: Police arrested dozens of anti-ICE agitators after they occupied a hotel lobby in New York City and blocked pedestrian traffic.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The New York City Police Department (NYPD), Sunrise Movement activists, and other anti-ICE agitators.
📍WHEN & WHERE: Tuesday at the Hilton Garden Inn on Sixth Avenue in Tribeca, Lower Manhattan, New York City.
💬KEY QUOTE: “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.” – Sunrise Movement
🎯IMPACT: The protest disrupted operations at the hotel and led to over 65 arrests.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) on Tuesday arrested dozens of anti-ICE agitators after they attempted to occupy a New York City hotel lobby and blocked pedestrians in the area. The protest occurred at the Hilton Garden Inn on Sixth Avenue in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan.
Anti ICE protests are in downtown Manhattan hotel protests .
They think ICE agents are at the hotel.
As far as i know, most ICE agents operating out of NYC , live in the area 🤣🤣🤣pic.twitter.com/3t8NLNCIqF
— Viral News NYC (@ViralNewsNYC) January 28, 2026
The Sunrise Movement, a far-left activist group that organized the protest, claimed the hotel was housing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and other federal law enforcement. The group stated on social media, “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.”
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. pic.twitter.com/j8ZX4mmd9B
— Sunrise Movement 🌅 (@sunrisemvmt) January 28, 2026
Another post from the organization claimed, “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.” Protestors chanted slogans such as “No ICE, No KKK, No Fascist USA” and “ICE out of New York.”
In one video, protestors reportedly chanted, “Kristi Noem will hang,” referencing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem. Nevertheless, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s spokesman, Sam Raskin, said the city government backed the protestors, stating, “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.”
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