Rare Accountability: Federal Officials Discipline ICE Officer Over Courtroom Incident

In an incident that starkly illustrates the tensions at the heart of America’s immigration enforcement, a federal immigration officer has been relieved of his duties after being caught on video shoving an Ecuadorian woman to the floor inside a Manhattan immigration court. The confrontation unfolded after the woman’s husband was arrested at the 26 Federal Plaza building in New York City, a known epicenter of aggressive federal immigration actions. Video footage circulating widely on social media shows the woman pleading— in Spanish—with the officer before he pushes her against a wall and then forcefully to the ground. When Does Enforcement...