00:00You will be placed under arrest on the charge of disorderly conduct.
00:03Protests erupted into chaos Wednesday night outside the Federal Immigration Court in Soho.
00:10Officers and crowds clashing over barricades.
00:12About two dozen protesters taken into custody for charges that include obstruction of government administration.
00:19People say, oh, let them come in legally.
00:21And when they try to come in legally and follow the court proceedings, they are being kidnapped.
00:25The protests come hours after witnesses report several people were taken into custody inside the ICE field office in Lower Manhattan.
00:34I've been working here for a couple of years and I've never seen either this many agents,
00:38let alone agents dressed in plain clothes, wearing masks, pulling people out of line.
00:43It's totally out of the ordinary.
00:44Under the Trump administration, advocates say it is becoming increasingly common for ICE to arrest and detain migrants at their immigration court hearings.
00:52It's what happened to a 20-year-old Bronx high school student last week.
00:57It's a catch-22. You don't show up for your court hearing, then you're also then could be ordered removed from the country.
01:04The Venezuelan student, identified as Dillon, was arrested by ICE at the Federal Immigration Court in Lower Manhattan,
01:10where he showed up for a hearing on his asylum request.
01:14They mess with the wrong people and they're messing with New York City kids.
01:16Naveed Hassan, a parent on the city's Board of Ed, says he's been fielding calls from worried immigrant parents.
01:23The school was actively trying to help figure out how to get him back and we're working with them.
01:28With the guidance counselor at the school, the mom is deeply involved in working together.
01:33A spokesman for the city's public schools told me the city does not ask families to disclose,
01:39nor does it track students' immigration status,
01:41and that staff did not provide any information on this student to federal authorities.
01:47Our schools remain safe and we encourage families to continue to send their children to school.
01:51City policy requires ICE to provide a signed judicial warrant before entering school property,
01:58which City Hall says has not ever happened under this administration.
