Dozens arrested after anti-ICE protesters partially shut down the West Side Highway in New York City.

The nearly 100 arrested people are facing disorderly conduct charges. They were all loaded on to police buses and taken in custody before authorities reopened the road.

Family separation is a fact of life here. If you break our American laws you are separated from your family! Our prisons are filled with American lawbreakers who are being separated from their families. So why should illegals be any different?

Breaking !!! Arrests begin as activists blocking the west side highway.

Demanding an end to ICE’s terrorizing of immigrant communities and to all detention and separation of families at the border.#ShutDownICE #DignityNotDetention pic.twitter.com/dnqUogBtGw

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— Gili Getz ???? (@giligetz) August 10, 2019

Happening NOW!!! @CosechaMovemen and allies blocking the west side highway.

Demanding an end to ICE’s terrorizing of immigrant communities and to all detention and separation of families at the border.#ShutDownICE #DignityNotDetention pic.twitter.com/CK8YQUGxr1

— Gili Getz ???? (@giligetz) August 10, 2019

WABC:

Several were arrested Saturday after protesters against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had partially blocked the West Side Highway in Manhattan, the NYPD said.

Commuters should expect road closures 12th Avenue and West 22nd Street. The West Side Highway and West 26th Street have since reopened.

Video shows dozens of demonstrators sitting in the middle of the highway, linking arms and chanting, “ICE lurks here.” More

ICE removals by year:

2009: 389,834
2010: 392,862
2011: 396,906
2012: 409,849
2013: 368,644
2014: 414,481
2015: 235,413
2016: 240,255
2017: 226,119
2018: 256,085
2019 (6 months): 129,517

No one ever objected until Trump was elected.

— Steph (@steph93065) August 10, 2019

ICE rescued me when I was 19 years old. I was kidnapped by a human trafficker. Beat, raped and held for, I STILL don’t know how long. I was going to be killed or sold. How dare you all do this to these great men and women. They are enforcing laws made by CONGRESS! Get it?

— MichelleMahBell❌ (@MichelleMahBel1) August 10, 2019

Anyone want to explain why infringing on another person’s right to travel along that street is okay?

— patches Coffman (@Patchesl12) August 10, 2019

ICE is enforcing US laws, not terrorizing. And they are not looking for immigrants, just ILLEGAL ALIENS. I support @ICEgov

— Hermitwannabe (@LaurieB09102264) August 10, 2019

Obstructing traffic on any highway is terribly dangerous and endangers all citizens. It can never be condoned as a means of protest.