New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, a Democratic mayoral aspirant, found himself in federal custody following his intervention in an immigration enforcement action, having physically interposed himself with an individual targeted for detainment outside a Manhattan immigration court – an act he subsequently framed as civil disobedience against the draconian excesses of Trump-era immigration protocols, precipitated by an alarming nationwide surge in extrajudicial apprehensions adjacent to federal immigration facilities, and roundly denounced by his political contemporaries.