On Thursday, an immigration and customs compliance agent has been relieved in a video that pushes a woman in a federal court in New York City, on Thursday of its current duties has been relieved when the National Security Department investigates the incident, he told ABC News, undersecretary assistant to the DHS, Tricia McLaughlin.
In the video reviewed by ABC News, you can listen to a woman begting the agent while her husband is being arrested, saying “nothing cares.” The agent can repeatedly be heard saying “goodbye” before suddenly pushing the woman against a wall and making them fall to the ground. Then you can see the agent stopped on her while her children cry they surround the woman.
“The behavior of the officer in this video is unacceptable and under ice men and women. Our application of the ICE law is maintained at the highest professional standards and this officer is being relieved of current duties as we carry out a complete investigation,” McLaughlin said.
An ICE officer has been relieved of duties to push a woman to the ground after arresting her husband outside an immigration court in the 26th Federal Federal Building Plaza in New York, on September 25, 2025.
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New York Comptroller, Brad Lander, who was in the Federal Building on Thursday, but was not personally witnessing the incident Posted in xsaying that the woman’s husband had been arrested by ice agents just moments before they push her to the ground.
“Seconds before, her husband had been kidnapped by masked ice agents who did not identify themselves, did not present a court order, did not give any legal reason for their detention,” Lander published.
Lander says that the woman was taken to the hospital after the incident.
A man is arrested outside an immigration court in the 26th Federal Federal Building in New York, on September 25, 2025.
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In a previous clip, you can see agents trying to stop the woman’s husband while telling them that she is not doing anything wrong.
“Just grab, away,” you can listen to an agent to say while another agent grabs women by hair.
Rep. Dan Goldman, DN.Y. Said on social networks The woman and her two young children “fled to my office for security” after the incident and asked the secretary of the DHS Kristi Noem to take disciplinary measures.
“Mónica and her 2 young children fled to my office for security after she was assaulted by this @icegov agent in an atrocious act of excessive strength. This is an unacceptable behavior of this ice agent.
Goldman said Friday that he sent a letter to the attorney general Pam Bondi who referred the ICE agent for criminal investigation.
“This behavior is unacceptable, and we need to have a deterrent effect investigating it seriously for criminal irregularities,” Goldman said. “I think anyone who watches that video would agree that this is excessive force.”
A spokesman for the Mayor of New York, Eric Adams, said Friday: “As so many, we have seen the annoying images of a federal agent who seems to push a woman, whose husband had just been stopped by ICE, to the ground, and we are pleased to know that this incident is being investigated. Our entire city is less safe when immigrants are afraid of basic use services and court audiences.”
