New York News was denied entry to United States Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem’s Decrease Manhattan press convention on Thursday, following months of detailed protection of ICE within the Huge Apple, as even Public Advocate Jumaane Williams was met with police for protesting the snub.
Photograph by Dean Moses
Was it one thing we wrote?
New York News was curiously denied entry to Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem’s press convention in Decrease Manhattan on Thursday morning, regardless of quite a few different journalistic retailers overlaying the Huge Apple being granted entry.
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams was additionally turned away when he made an effort to not solely attend the press convention himself, but in addition have this outlet accompany him.
The Division of Homeland Safety refused to clarify its causes for denying New York News entry to the Jan. 8 press convention, save for a DHS consultant claiming {that a} credentialed reporter “could not be accommodated.”
The snub might need one thing to do with New York News’s dogged protection of ICE operations at 26 Federal Plaza over the past a number of months. As reported, masked ICE brokers have spent months detaining immigrants, a lot of whom don’t have any legal information, as they appeared for court-mandated hearings. A lot of New York News’s protection has targeted on household separations, with reporters bearing witness to fathers and husbands being pulled away by brokers from households and brought to detention facilities.
On Sept. 30, 2025, this reporter was assaulted by two ICE brokers who pushed him out of a public elevator whereas they moved to detain a lady. Two different photojournalists for different retailers have been assaulted and injured by ICE brokers.
In response, a Division of Homeland Safety spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin, defended the officers, claiming they have been “swarmed by agitators and members of the press” whereas making an attempt to arrest “an illegal alien from Peru.” That description, nevertheless, was inaccurate based on those that witnessed the incident: solely credentialed members of the press, attorneys, court docket workers, and court docket observers have been current.
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams additionally tried to attend the briefing however was instantly turned away by safety workers..Photograph by Dean Moses 
Williams displayed a doc on his cellphone to the officers available, which invited members of the media to attend the convention.Photograph by Dean Moses
Later that morning, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams additionally tried to attend the briefing however was turned away by safety workers instantly.
“Anyone who comes into our building must register. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is our tenant, and you must speak to them. It’s called security,” a guard acknowledged.
“I know the definition of security,” Williams responded. “How do I get in contact with them?”
“Google it,” the workers member snapped.
Williams displayed a doc on his cellphone to the officers available, which invited members of the media to attend the convention.
“The question I have is about the media. I understand why I’m not allowed in, but they put a press release out for the media. This gentleman came on time with his credentials,” Williams stated, referring to New York News.
The general public advocate — the second-highest citywide elected official, behind solely Mayor Zohran Mamdani — was instructed that one other workers member would come and communicate with him. As a substitute, Port Authority Police arrived and demanded that he depart the constructing. Williams spoke with New York News following the incident.
“I and some other folks tried to go to the press conference of Kristi Noem, we weren’t allowed to go up. I had another question that I thought was more important of why a reporter was not allowed to go up, and they didn’t have a real answer for that,” Williams stated. “That concerns me because it was a media advisory sent to the media.”
The Public Advocate was instructed that one other workers member would come and communicate with him; as a substitute, Port Authority Police arrived and demanded that he depart the constructing.Photograph by Dean Moses
