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An ICE officer in New York City was relieved of duties after shoving Monica, sparking protests and calls for action from Rep. Dan Goldman over ICE’s aggressive tactics.
US Immigration officer assaulting woman.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who had shoved a woman into a wall and then pushed her to the ground, has been “relieved of his current duties,” an ICE official said on Friday.
The incident was caught on camera on Thursday at an immigration court in New York City. This sparked protests in the country amid growing concerns about ICE’s aggressive tactics to arrest immigrants.
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“The officer’s conduct in this video is unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE. Our ICE law enforcement are held to the highest professional standards and this officer is being relieved of current duties as we conduct a full investigation,” ICE Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.
In one video of the incident shared on social media, a woman and a girl are seen clinging with locked arms to a man, reportedly the woman’s husband, who is being detained, in a hallway of 26 Federal Plaza, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement District Office in Lower Manhattan, CNN reported.
The hysterical wife of the detained alien follows around and confronts the ICE agent who repeatedly tells her “adios” then two hand pushes and shoves the woman to the ground in front of her children. Court security is brought to remove the woman pic.twitter.com/Mxv31DvMPC— Elaad Eliahu (@elaadeliahu) September 25, 2025
In the video, a masked agent could be seen grabbing her hair as someone says, “Just grab her, grab her and pull her away.” After separating the woman and the man, she is moved to other room.
The video later showed the woman in he hallway speaking to a federal agent, saying in Spanish, “You guys don’t care about anything!” The agent says, “Adios, adios,” as the woman pleads and motions her hands towards the agent.
The agent, however, grabbed the woman and forced her several feet down the hallway, into a wall. He then shoved the woman down the hallway and pushed her to the ground.
The agent then told her to “Leave” in Spanish and asked other officers to remove her from the building.
CNN quoted the woman later telling reporters: “Over (in Ecuador), they beat us there too. I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me.”
Later, Rep. Dan Goldman in a post on X said: “Monica and her 2 young children fled to my office for safety after she was assaulted by this @ICEgov agent in an egregious act of excessive force. This is unacceptable conduct from this ICE agent.”
He called on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to “take appropriate disciplinary action and implement measures to prevent this from happening again.” ICE falls under DHS.
Brad Lander, city comptroller and frequents ICE critic, said in a post on X that he was at the plaza when the incident took place.
“An ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids,” he wrote. “She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital.”
“Regardless of motive or targets, we must condemn political violence,” he wrote. “But 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.”
New York, United States of America (USA)
September 26, 2025, 23:37 IST
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