The federal immigration clerk who forcibly pushed the Ecuadorian woman on the ground in the court in Manhattan is “released by current duties”, confirmed the Ministry of Internal Security and issued a rare public rebuke one of its.
The incident that caused outrage after being widely shared on social media was after the arrest of the woman’s husband at the immigration court in New York, as stated by AP.
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In a video circulating on the social media, Monica Moreta-Galarza and her daughter desperately hold her husband and father when she is detained in the hall in the Ice District district, located in 26 federal squares of Lower Manhattan.
The shots show that the woman approaches the immigration clerk after the arrest of her husband, asks the officer in Spanish, and at one point says, “You don’t care anything,” before she pushes her into the wall and then on the floor of the crowded corridor.
“The behavior of the officer in this video is unacceptable and under the men and women of the ice,” said Tricia McLaughlin on Friday, assistant DHS, who oversees the promotion of immigration. “Our ice coercive bodies are held according to the highest professional standards, and this officer is facilitated by current duties when we conduct a complete investigation,” she added.
It is unusual for DHS Trump’s administration to discipline immigration officers for aggressive tactics across the US.
A quarrel in New York occurred on Thursday on 26 federal squares in Manhattan, a government building in which the immigration court resides and has become a local focus of arrest and detention in the federal government of immigration intervention.
Our coercive ice bodies are held according to the highest professional standards.
The agency defended its practice that immigration and customs coercive officers arrested people in hearing the immigration court, which have sometimes created chaotic scenes.
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