Overview

• DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called the conduct "unacceptable" and said the officer was relieved of current duties pending a full investigation.
• Video from 26 Federal Plaza shows the agent saying "adios" before pushing Monica Moreta-Galarza, an asylum seeker from Ecuador, to the floor as her children cried and her husband was detained.
• ProPublica and other outlets report Moreta-Galarza was treated at a hospital after the incident, which occurred in a building where ICE has increasingly detained people leaving immigration hearings.
• New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and Rep. Dan Goldman condemned the use of force; Lander and Goldman referred the officer to federal prosecutors for potential charges.
• The confrontation comes as tensions rise around ICE operations in multiple cities, with Reuters documenting tear gas and pepper balls used against protesters at an Illinois facility and a separate injury during an arrest near Boston following a deadly shooting at an ICE site in Dallas this week.