In a brazen act of civil disobedience, New York City Comptroller and Democratic mayoral hopeful Brad Lander was taken into custody by federal officers outside a Manhattan immigration court, following his interposition – physically linking arms with an individual targeted for detention – an act he framed as resistance to the draconian immigration policies he associates with the Trump administration, amidst a nationwide surge in extrajudicial arrests occurring on the peripheries of immigration proceedings, a situation decried by fellow Democratic contenders and political figures alike as an assault on due process.