Dozens Arrested After Anti-ICE Protest at a Manhattan Hilton

Dozens of demonstrators were arrested in Manhattan on Tuesday evening after occupying the lobby of a TriBeCa hotel where, they said, federal immigration agents were staying while carrying out the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

More than 100 people crammed into the hotel, a Hilton Garden Inn on Sixth Avenue near Canal Street, at about 6 p.m., condemning the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency with chants and anti-ICE slogans on their black T-shirts.

The protesters also directed their ire at Hilton for, they claimed, providing lodging to ICE agents. A hotel worker checking in guests, and guests themselves, seemed confused by the protest. It could not immediately be determined whether ICE agents were staying at the hotel.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani, through a spokesman, praised the protesters for exercising their rights and the police for their response, and he said he was glad the demonstration had ended peacefully.

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Just after 6:35 p.m. Tuesday, police officers entered the Hilton lobby and warned that those who did not leave faced arrest. “They want you guys out of the hotel,” one officer said. Many people soon left, and the police forced reporters out as well. About 50 people remained.

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At about 7:30 p.m., officers with the Police Department’s Strategic Response Group began to make arrests, lifting protesters off the lobby floor, binding their hands with zip ties and escorting them through a back door to a waiting bus.

The police said that 66 people had been taken into custody. Sixty-four were issued summonses for trespassing and disorderly conduct; two received desk appearance tickets for obstructing governmental administration.

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