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A U.S. immigration officer pushes a woman to the ground in a New York City courthouse. Protesters were dispersed with tear gas outside a detention center in Chicago. A woman was injured during an arrest in the Boston area.
The incidents on Thursday and Friday highlight rising tensions in major US cities over President Donald Trump's aggressive crackdown on immigration, days after a shooting targeting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas left one detainee dead and two others seriously injured.
Trump aims to deport record numbers of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, framing the initiative around criminals but arresting many of them without criminal records. Residents in New York, Chicago, Washington and other Democratic-leaning metropolitan areas have objected in recent months, as ICE has stepped up enforcement.
Some Hispanic residents have said they are being detained solely because of their appearance, charges dismissed by the Trump administration. The Supreme Court earlier this month overturned a lower court order that had limited ICE from detaining a person solely based on ethnicity, language or other factors in the Los Angeles area.
Milagros Barreto, a worker's attorney for La Colaborativa, a pro-immigrant group in Chelsea, Massachusetts, said she witnessed ICE throwing a Guatemalan woman to the ground on Friday, despite her being a permanent resident.
Reuters captured images of the woman on the ground, her hands clasped behind her back, being restrained by federal agents as her son stood nearby, crying. Other images showed her in distress as she was being walked away from emergency crews.
The woman was accompanying an extended family member to a court hearing when ICE officers stopped their pickup truck, broke two of the windows and took the family member into custody, Barreto said.
The woman had a scratch on her shoulder and she also suffered an existing back injury, forcing her to be hospitalized, Barreto said. She gave the woman's name only as Hilda.
I don't have to say anything today or any other day to beg the world to stop the horrific genocide that is happening in Gaza.
"It doesn't matter where you come from. If you look Latino, you're a target," said Barreto, a U.S. citizen originally from Puerto Rico.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, a leading Democratic critic of Trump's tough immigration crackdown, signed legislation last week that would ban ICE officers from wearing masks to hide their identities. Critics of mask-wearing say it hinders accountability.
However, Trump officials say officers should wear them to avoid being targeted. U.S. authorities said Thursday that the suspect killed in the Dallas shooting intended to kill and "terrorize" ICE agents.
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