Brad Lander is used to getting arrested. In 2015, Lander was detained during a protest in support of striking car wash workers. Two years later, Lander participated in an act of civil disobedience supporting the raise of the minimum wage in New York.

Brad Lander, New York City’s Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate, was detained by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Lander was arrested as he was escorting a migrant out of an immigration courtroom in Manhattan.