Brad Lander is used to getting arrested. In 2015, Lander was detained during a protest in support of striking car wash workers. Two years later, Lander participated in an act of civil disobedience supporting the raise of the minimum wage in New York.

Brad Lander, New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate, was arrested by federal agents at an immigration court on Tuesday. Agents accused him of obstructing the arrest of an immigrant.

This is part of what authoritarians do,” Lander says. He also discusses the mayoral race and the New York for All Act.