据纽约市官员称，纽约市议会的一名雇员周一在长岛进行“例行”移民任命时被拘留，他们称这一事件是“政府过分的行为”。
市长Zohran Mamdani说他对工人的被捕感到“愤怒”。
“这是对我们的民主、我们的城市和我们的价值观的攻击，”他在x上的一份声明中说。“我呼吁立即释放他，并将继续监控局势。”
据纽约市报道，周一早些时候，该员工在拿骚县贝斯佩奇的一次约会中被联邦移民官员拘留议会议长朱莉·梅宁。
据梅宁说，市议会在周一下午得知了他被拘留的消息，当时这名员工用他的一个电话联系了市议会的人力资源部寻求帮助，并说他已经被拘留了。
“DHS证实，这名雇员是去进行一次例行的法庭约会，但还是被拘留了。他们没有为他的拘留提供其他依据，”梅宁在周一的新闻发布会上说。“相反，他是市议会的一名雇员，做什么都是对的。有人问他，他就去法院了。”
梅宁说，市议会要求该雇员返回，她没有确定，理由是隐私问题。她说，他是一名“核心员工，作为数据分析师工作了大约一年”。
发言人说，这名雇员有合法授权在该国逗留到10月份。
民主党纽约众议员丹·戈德曼说，这名雇员是委内瑞拉后裔，是“有工作授权的守法移民”
他在周一的新闻发布会上说，“我想说得很清楚:除了他的移民身份之外，没有任何迹象表明这个人有任何其他原因导致他被逮捕。”
据梅宁说，这名雇员已经被转移到曼哈顿的一个拘留中心。她说市议会无法联系到他的家人。
戈德曼说，他的办公室已经联系了美国移民和海关执法局。
“我们将继续与此斗争，”他说。“我们将继续努力，不仅要释放这个人，这显然是必要的，而且要停止这场移民大搜查。”
纽约司法部长莱蒂夏·詹姆斯(Letitia James)也呼吁立即释放这名工作人员，他在X的一份声明中说，“我们不会容忍对我们城市、公务员和居民的攻击。”
Mamdani 'outraged' after New York City council employee detained by ICE
A New York City Council employee was detained during a "routine" immigration appointment on Long Island on Monday, according to city officials, who called the incident an "egregious government overreach."
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he is "outraged" by the worker's arrest.
"This is an assault on our democracy, on our city, and our values," he said in a statement on X. "I am calling for his immediate release and will continue to monitor the situation."
The employee was detained by federal immigration officials during an appointment in Bethpage in Nassau County earlier Monday, according to NYCCouncil Speaker Julie Menin.
The city council learned of his detainment Monday afternoon, when the employee used his one phone call to contact the council's human resources department for help and said he had been detained, according to Menin.
"DHS confirmed that this employee had gone in for a routine court appointment and was nevertheless detained. They provided no other basis for his detainment," Menin said during a press briefing on Monday. "On the contrary, he was a city council employee who is doing everything right. He went to the court when he was asked."
Menin said the city council is demanding the return of the employee, whom she did not identify, citing privacy concerns. He is a "central staff member working as a data analyst for approximately a year," she said.
The speaker said the employee has legal authorization to remain in the country until October.
Democratic New York Congressman Dan Goldman said the employee is of Venezuelan descent and is a "law-abiding immigrant with work authorization."
"I want to be very clear: There is no indication that there's anything about this individual other than his immigration status that caused him to be arrested," he said during Monday's press briefing.
The employee has been transferred to a detention center in Manhattan, according to Menin. She said the city council has been unable to reach his family members.
Goldman said his office has reached out to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"We will continue to fight this," he said. "We will continue to push for not only this person's release, which is so obviously necessary, but for this immigration dragnet to stop."
New York Attorney General Letitia James also called for the staffer's immediate release, saying in a statement on X, "We will not stand for attacks on our city, its public servants, and its residents."
