Brad Lander, New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate, was arrested on Tuesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while he had linked arms with a person the agents were trying to process.

After the incident, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that the state would  provide $50 million in legal services for illegal immigrants to fight deportation.

Kari Lake, President Donald Trump’s top adviser to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, told Newsmax on Wednesday that she has never seen somebody “like Lander fight that hard for an American.”

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