Video shows ICE agent slamming woman to ground after husband detained at NYC immigration court
Footage shared by New York City Comptroller Brad Lander shows a plain-clothes ICE officer shoving a distressed mother in front of her children as authorities detain her husband outside Manhattan immigration courts; critics demand account…
A plain-clothes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer at New York City’s immigration offices was filmed slamming a distressed woman to the ground in front of her two children moments after her husband was detained, footage shared by New York City Comptroller Brad Lander shows.
The woman, who spoke Spanish, pleaded for help and for their father, saying, “Please take me too” and, “They are going to kill him.” As masked agents pulled the husband away, the woman reached for the officer’s arm and was shoved into a wall and slammed onto the floor. In the video, the officer is heard saying “adios, adios” after the shove. Witnesses rushed to surround her, and court security intervened to remove the sobbing mother.
According to Lander, the husband had been detained by the agents just seconds earlier and without presenting a warrant or giving a clear explanation for the arrest. He said the distressing scene occurred outside the city’s immigration courts and that the family had arrived in the United States from Ecuador last year.
Lander condemned the actions on social media, saying that masked ICE agents are “abducting neighbors” and subjecting people to “cruel and inhumane conditions,” and reiterating, “We want ICE out of New York City. And we won’t stop showing up until they stop abducting our neighbors.”
New York Congressman Dan Goldman, who was in the building at the time, said the family had come to his office following the exchange and called it an “egregious act of excessive force.” He urged Secretary Noem to take disciplinary action and implement measures to prevent a recurrence.
The same day, protesters organized by a group called New Yorkers Against ICE demonstrated across from the courthouse, which has become a focal point in defiant opposition to immigration enforcement in the city. Lander addressed the crowd, saying, “We are not going to stop showing up until they stop abducting our neighbors.”
The notes accompanying the clip also reference a separate incident in Texas in which an ICE facility was involved in a fatal shooting that left one immigrant dead and two others injured. The notes attribute statements to officials describing the incident in Texas and mention a handwritten note reportedly found at the scene that referenced terror toward ICE agents. Conservatives have called on opponents of ICE policy to temper rhetoric in the wake of the Dallas shooting.
Daily Mail reached out to ICE and DHS for comment on the NYC incident. The unfolding events come amid broader, ongoing debates over ICE procedures in urban centers and the treatment of immigrant families during enforcement actions.