An ICE agent was filmed slamming a distressed woman to the ground in front of her children moments after her husband was detained.
In a video shared by New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, the woman was pleading with the plain-clothes official at the city’s customs and immigration offices.
Her husband had been detained and whisked away by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers just moments earlier.
According to CBS, the sobbing woman pleaded with the ICE agent in Spanish: ‘Please take me too.’
‘They are going to kill him. They pulled my hair. You guys don’t care about anything,’ she said.
She reached for the officer’s arm and in response he shoved her with both hands into the wall and slammed her onto the ground.
He can be heard saying ‘adios, adios’ as he slammed her away from him.
Her young daughter cried as her mother was violently forced to the floor and witnesses rushed to surround her.
The woman was thrown to the ground by an immigration official in front of her two young children
A hysterical mother pleaded with ICE after her husband was ripped away from her by masked agents
Court security then arrived to remove the weeping woman.
According to Lander, she was placed in an ambulance and taken to the hospital following the altercation. Her injuries and condition are unknown.
Lander acknowledged the fatal shooting on ICE agents in Texas on Wednesday which left one immigrant dead and two more injured, but said he must condemn all ‘political violence.
‘Let’s be clear: every day, masked ICE agents are acting violently against our neighbors, illegally abducting them, holding them in cruel and inhumane conditions. Treating them as less-than-human, and not deserving due process.
‘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 was also in the building at the time, and posted on X that the family had come to his office following the exchange which he called an ‘egregious act of excessive force’.
He said: ‘This is unacceptable conduct from this ICE agent.
‘Secretary Noem must take appropriate disciplinary action and implement measures to prevent this from happening again.’
The woman’s young daughter watched in tears as her mom was pushed to the floor
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander condemned ICE’s actions on social media and shared detail about the altercation
According to Lander, the woman’s husband had been taken into custody ‘seconds earlier’ by immigration agents who were masked and had not identified themselves.
They also reportedly declined to present a warrant or give lawful grounds for his arrest.
In video of his arrest, the man held onto his wife and children as the masked agents grabbed him outside of New York City immigration courts.
The agents pulled him away from his crying family and shoved him down the hallway to the processing center on another floor.
Lander said that the woman is a mother to two children. According to The New York Times, she and her family had arrived in the United States from Ecuador last year.
He said: ‘He was ripped out of her arms right in front of the family.’
The same day, ‘New Yorkers against ICE’ had organized a protest across front the courthouse, which has become the epicenter of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Lander addressed the crowd there: ‘We are not going to stop showing up until they stop abducting our neighbors.’
The family held onto their father and husband as he was torn away by masked agents
Daily Mail reached out to ICE and DHS for comment.
The distressing video comes just one day after Joshua Jahn, 29, opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas with bullets inscribed with the words ‘ANTI-ICE.’
FBI Director Kash Patel claimed a handwritten note found at the scene read: ‘Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, “is there a sniper with AP (armor piercing) rounds on that roof?”‘
Conservatives have called on liberals to tone down anti-ICE rhetoric, blaming simmering tensions about the department’s mission for the attack.
