Here in New York, outrage is mounting after a federal agent in plainclothes was caught on video shoving and pushing an Ecuadorian mother to the ground as her two young children watched and screamed in panic inside 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan. Video shows the woman crying as she begs authorities not to take her husband, who was detained during the family’s asylum hearing at the federal building. The woman is heard telling agents in Spanish, “They are going to kill him,” if her husband is deported to Ecuador. The agent is also heard mocking the woman, telling her “adios” repeatedly, the Spanish word for “goodbye,” before ramming her against the wall and shoving her to the floor. The family reportedly arrived from Ecuador last year.

This came as protesters gathered outside 26 Federal Plaza Thursday, where immigrants have described being imprisoned for days or weeks without due process in overcrowded cells, without access to medication and proper sanitation, being forced to sleep on the concrete floor and left hungry without outside contact. This is New York Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas.

Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas: “We are done with this administration and their cruelty. We will demand that ICE is out of New York, and we need to fight to make sure that we are passing laws here in New York that will protect our immigrant neighbors, because we are all the child of immigrants.”