Federal authorities were forced to remove vehicles from a New York City parking garage after anti-immigration enforcement agitators staged protests at the building, according to reports.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was sub-leasing several spaces from Metropolis, a technology company that leases the Downtown Manhattan garage, Gothamist reported this week.
However, after radical leftists demonstrated outside the facility last week, Metropolis terminated their contract with ICE and requested that nine government vehicles be removed from the garage immediately.
On May 14, activists reportedly blocked a street near the garage and held signs reading “ICE PARKS HERE” while shouting slogans and ringing cowbells.
“We know that ICE is currently parking at your Morton Street location,” organizers with the group Chelsea Neighbors United wrote in a follow-up email to Metropolis CEO Alexander Israel.
“We urge you to protect our neighbors and respect New Yorkers’ inevitable response, and say ‘no’ to ICE.”
Metropolis swiftly caved to the pressure campaign.
“As soon as we were made aware that these nine vehicles had been parked for a short duration, we took immediate action to have them removed,” stated company spokeswoman Lizzy Levitan.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reportedly confirmed that ICE’s contract with Metropolis has been terminated.
Open borders radicals are also seeking to force similar ousters from other facilities in the area as DHS seeks to secure more parking in the vicinity of ICE’s field office in the Big Apple.
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Anyone protesting ICE needs to be investigated, because something isn’t quite right with that!
Anyone who protests ICE needs to be deported to Mexico!
So that all ya gotta do to repel feds? Have a 15 person protest? Interesting.