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City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and three members of Congress were arrested protesting outside Trump Tower Tuesday for protections for young immigrants threatened by an order from President Trump.

Reps. Adriano Espaillat (D-Manhattan), Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and Mark-Viverito were among about ten people who sat down in the street on Fifth Ave. near the tower, and got cuffed after refusing to move.

"We are here to defend our immigrant communities," Mark-Viverito said before the arrest, where she was put in plastic handcuffs and loaded into a Department of Correction bus with other protesters.

"We don't want families to be divided," she said. "Trump's policy goes against what the majority of this nation supports and believes in. It goes against our values."

The group called on Congress to pass the Dream Act — which would offer legal status to people brought to the United States illegally as children — without the added border security expected to be included in a deal between Trump and Congressional Democrats.

Trump ordered an end to deferred action for childhood arrivals, an Obama administration program that offered similar protections through executive action. But he delayed enactment by six months and has waffled on the issue since, saying he's willing to compromise with Democrats.

Kevin Hagen/Getty Images Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Reps. Adriano Espaillat (D-Manhattan), Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) were arrested outside of Trump Tower.

"They deserve to stay in America. They are workers, students, soldiers in our armed forces," Espaillat said.

It's become relatively common in recent years for city pols to get arrested committing civil disobedience in support of their favored causes. Mayor de Blasio used the same tactic while running for mayor to protest the closure of Long Island College Hospital, which ended up closing after he took office.

"Since you have refused to leave the roadway, you will be placed under arrest on the charge of disorderly conduct," said an NYPD loudspeaker announcement before the group was arrested.

Grijalva, the Arizona rep, said "all acts of pressure are appropriate right now" in defense of the thousands of immigrants, commonly referred to as Dreamers.

Natalia Aristizabal of the group Make the Road New York said Congress should not offer the extra cash for border security that Democratic leaders have agreed to in exchange for shielding the young immigrants.

"We do not want enforcement. We do not want to put the broader immigrant community in jeopardy," she said.