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Toll, the spokesperson for Amtrak, did not respond to a request about Amtrak Police handing people off they had detained to ICE. Word has been spreading about the crackdown in recent weeks. The bathroom in question is near the Eighth Avenue entrances to Penn Station, and directly next to an Amtrak police booth.

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Two other men who had been looking at each other over the bathroom partitions were also led out under arrest, David recalled. More by Gwynne Hogan. Skip to content.

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A gay elected official is sounding the alarm that a string of arrests at a New York City cruising site revives "the dark days" of queer entrapment. The man ended up spending more than a month in immigration detention before an immigration judge sided in his favor and he was released.

Attorneys and advocates say the arrests have continued escalating in the months since, with the Legal Aid Society tracking 20 public lewdness arrests in a single day in September. Among those arrested was David, a year-old health care worker, who says he was just trying to use the bathroom on his way back from visiting a friend in New Jersey when he felt he was being watched by a man nearby.

Inthe Port Authority Police, a bi-state agency, had to halt their use of undercover officers staking out bathrooms following a settlement in a lawsuit by the Legal Aid Society claiming the tactic had spurred years of false arrests and unlawful discrimination.

But moments later the man approached him at the urinal, telling him he was under arrest for public lewdness. Gwynne Hogan Senior Reporter ghogan thecity. Nearly three hours later, David was released with a desk appearance ticket ordering him to show up Manhattan Criminal Court at Centre St.

In June, which is Pride month and the most recent month for which data is available, that shot up to 23 arrests.

Last week, The City broke the news that the. The surge in arrests by the Amtrak Police, a national police force who are not bound by city sanctuary protections, kicked off in June, targeting a Penn Station bathroom listed on Sniffies, a popular cruising website and app used for gay hookups.

David, who is gay, was wearing a rainbow Pride wristband as he says he was simply trying to pee when he was arrested. Our nonprofit newsroom relies on readers like you to power investigations like these. Sign up. In that case, immigration attorney Danney Salvatierra said her client, a Mexican man with a U.

A document later provided to Salvatierra said Amtrak Police had arrested her client and immediately taken him to 26 Federal Plaza — the federal building in Lower Manhattan — to hand him off to ICE. The document made no mention of any charge filed against him.

Gwynne Hogan is a senior reporter covering immigration, homelessness, and many things in between. Historically, cruising offered gay men a means of connection in a world that denied them safe spaces, and today, it persists as both a cultural practice and a rebellious reminder of queer resilience.

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