Protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New York City are being held following the release of video showing conditions inside the facility at Manhattan's federal immigration building.

A group gathered outside the ICE processing center at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan on Monday. 

Last week, the New York Immigration Coalition provided video showing what looks like the inside of the same processing center. Members of Congress have been trying to access the area for weeks after hearing complaints alleging detained immigrants have been held there for days in deplorable conditions.

"This is intolerable. Some people are being held up on the 10th floor in unsanitary conditions," Emma Kaplan, a protest organizer, said. "Enough is enough. It is time to start disrupting business as usual, nonviolent political resistance." 

ICE has maintained that the facility is not a detention center and is only used for temporary processing. The Department of Homeland Security denied claims of overcrowding or poor conditions. 

Protests were planned in New York and other major U.S. cities.

Organizers said they planned to rally first outside ICE detention centers, immigration courts and federal buildings, like Federal Plaza, in the afternoon before more demonstrations Monday evening.

They stressed they want no violence at any demonstrations.

Trump administration targets NYC sanctuary laws

Monday's rallies were being planned as Mayor Eric Adams sought changes to the city's sanctuary laws amid a Justice Department lawsuit filed last week aiming to strike them down.

Adams said he supports the sanctuary laws protecting undocumented immigrants, but he believes modifications are needed to go after people who commit crimes.

The mayor is facing stiff resistance from the City Council though, as members seek to stop him from expanding the role of federal immigration agents in the city.

Federal officials have been particularly upset that the City Council went to court to stop an executive order issued by Adams to allow ICE agents to work on Rikers Island, where they could identify undocumented immigrants who may be in the country illegally and have committed crimes.