They’re elected to make policy, or to enforce the law. But in recent weeks, several prominent elected officials and a judge have been handcuffed, arrested or charged while protesting President Trump’s immigration agenda.

On Tuesday, Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller, was arrested at an immigration court in Lower Manhattan, the latest lawmaker to be swept up in the protests against the administration’s immigration raids and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. He was trying to escort a migrant whom agents were seeking to arrest.

Mr. Lander, a candidate in the Democratic primary for mayor, was seen in a video posted to his personal account on X being placed in handcuffs and led into an elevator by men in plain clothes wearing backward baseball caps and surgical masks.

A few of the men wore vests that read “police federal agent.”

“You don’t have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens,” Mr Lander said repeatedly, while being jostled by the men.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said that Mr. Lander, who was held for several hours and then released, had assaulted and impeded a law enforcement officer, though federal prosecutors did not bring charges on Tuesday.

Here are some other officials who have been detained during ICE protests: