Nearly two dozen protesters, including a pastor, were arrested late Wednesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers inside and outside a Manhattan courthouse, The City reported.

Following the arrests of multiple illegal immigrants by ICE at a Lower Manhattan courthouse, protesters began blocking the path of two vans the agents were using to transport the detained migrants. The protesters had become enraged when two dozen masked, plainclothes officers gathered Wednesday afternoon in the lobby of 26 Federal Plaza, where they corralled at least six migrants as well as a Queens pastor who tried to intervene, the outlet reported.

Twenty-three people were taken into custody as activists rallied outside the U.S. Immigration Court on Varick Street near West Houston Street, according to police. Eighteen were released with summonses, and the status of the five others was not immediately known.

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