Activists rallied community organizations outside an 18 Morton Street garage with banners and signs demanding ICE leave NYC. Police were present while the campaign targeted the lot operator, Metropolis Technologies. The operator stated that it asked ICE to remove nine vehicles from the garage after being informed by Chelsea Neighbors United. An organizer said the goal extends beyond Manhattan and condemned ICE parking and kidnappings, pledging no ICE parking anywhere. ICE did not respond to a comment request. Human rights activists also targeted other parking arrangements, including a letter-writing effort aimed at the Hudson River Park Trust, which chose not to renew an ICE parking contract set to expire in June, though advocates sought a broader formal ban on collaboration and related support.
"Activists rallied a group of community organizations outside the garage last week, standing behind a banner reading, ICE parks here, in black and red letters and carrying signs saying, ICE out of NYC, while police looked on. The pressure campaign appeared to have its intended effect as representatives from the lot's operator, Metropolis Technologies, announced that it asked the agency to get nine vehicles parked there out of the garage."
"As soon as Chelsea Neighbors United made us aware that these nine vehicles were parked at Morton Street, we took immediate action and these vehicles are no longer parked with Metropolis. Nick Rosen-Wachs, the vice president of communications for Metropolis Technologies, stated in an email sent to the group."
"We are really angry that ICE is parking in our neighborhoods and kidnapping our neighbors, Rudnick said in a statement. Our commitment is clear: No parking for ICE anytime, anywhere. ICE did not respond to a request for comment. Human rights activists celebrated Friday when a West Village parking lot terminated its contract for parking space with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the 18 Morton Street garage."
"Organizers previously mounted a letter-writing campaign calling on the Hudson River Park Trust to atone for a decades-long contract with ICE to let the agency's employees park vehicles at Pier 40. The Trust, which receives some public funding, announced earlier this year that it would not renew its parking contract with ICE, which expires in June. But advocates said that didn't go far enough; the campaign has called on the board of the park steward nonprofit to create a formal policy prohibiting any collaboration with ICE or DHS, donations to immigr"
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