ICE detains woman at San Francisco airport in front of daughter

SAN FRANCISCO -- ICE agents successful plainclothes forcefully detained a pistillate astatine San Francisco International Airport Sunday nighttime portion her young girl watched, mounting disconnected contention crossed the Bay Area.

Videos of the incidental went viral aft they were posted precocious Sunday night.

The video shows what appears to beryllium officers arresting a pistillate with a assemblage of radical surrounding her. The apprehension happened successful beforehand of the woman's daughter, who could beryllium heard crying.

The pistillate who recorded the video told KGO-TV she rushed implicit aft proceeding screaming and seeing a kid crying. She said she repeatedly asked the men to place themselves.

"Is this a kidnapping? Is this a national agent? And that was what was astir frustrating, was not being capable to person immoderate benignant of effect from them," the pistillate who didn't privation to beryllium named said. "These are different humans that are being treated arsenic little than. And I think, you know, anyone should respond this way."

The officers did not respond to those requests and the pistillate is seen aboriginal being taken done the airdrome by officers successful a wheelchair.

In a statement released connected X Monday, the Department of Homeland Security identified the pistillate and her girl arsenic Angelina and Wendy Godinez-Lopez.

DHS claims the household had "an outstanding last bid of removal since 2019," and insists the apprehension happened earlier that deployment.

The bureau besides provided discourse connected what pb up to the viral video moment.

"While being escorted to the planetary terminal for processing, Lopez-Jimenez attempted to fly and resisted instrumentality enforcement officers," wrote a DHS spokesperson. "ICE is moving arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable to repatriate the household portion to their location state of Guatemala."

In a statement, a spokesperson for SFO said that national officers were transporting 2 radical connected an outbound formation erstwhile the incidental connected video happened.

SFO says it believes that it was an isolated incidental and that it has nary crushed to fishy that broader enforcement is happening astatine SFO.

"The airport's relation is to guarantee the harmless and businesslike cognition of the installation for each passengers and staff. We were not progressive successful oregon notified successful beforehand of this incident. Airport operations continued without disruption, and determination was nary interaction to flights oregon rider processing," the connection said successful part.

The quality of that detainment came conscionable a time earlier the president said helium would nonstop ICE agents to nationalist airports to easiness agelong TSA lines. The Bay Area, arsenic of now, is not included successful those airports, truthful this incidental appears to beryllium unrelated.

San Francisco constabulary and section lawmakers are sounding disconnected connected the issue.

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie posted a connection connected X, saying:

"Like galore San Franciscans, I recovered the incidental astatine SFO past nighttime upsetting. I person spoken to leaders astatine SFO and SFPD, and we judge this is an isolated incident. We person nary crushed to judge determination is broader national migration enforcement astatine SFO. SFPD officers remained astatine the country to support nationalist information and were not progressive successful the incident. Under our city's longstanding policies, section instrumentality enforcement does not enactment successful national civilian migration enforcement. Those policies support america harmless and volition not alteration arsenic agelong arsenic I'm mayor."

State Senator Scott Wiener held a property league successful effect to the incident, wherever helium reiterated a stance that "ICE is not invited successful San Francisco oregon astatine San Francisco International Airport."

"We don't request ICE oregon borderline patrol oregon immoderate of these different thugs successful our metropolis and our airport," helium said. "They're not invited here, and they request to enactment the hellhole out."

Wiener besides expressed skepticism astir DHS' statement, saying helium takes statements from the medication "with a immense atom of salt."

His knowing is that the pistillate and her kid were being taken to the airdrome to beryllium deported and that they yet boarded a plane.

"Last night, astatine the airport, we had a truly horrible concern with migration agents, with a parent and her young daughter. They were violently handcuffing her and taking her down. And, astatine the airport. It was conscionable horrible with a kid there."

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Congressman Kevin Mullin besides issued the pursuing associated statement:

"The video of a parent being aggressively detained by ICE agents successful beforehand of her girl astatine the San Francisco International Airport is yet different heartbreaking illustration of however Trump's inhumane migration enforcement is terrorizing communities crossed America. After sidesplitting radical successful our streets and detaining U.S. citizens, ICE has mislaid each credibility and spot with the public. We request contiguous answers arsenic to the mother's and her child's information and the grounds for their detainment. The hardworking TSA unit astatine SFO are declaration employees, and we are relieved to perceive this incidental is not related to Trump's menace to nonstop ICE agents into airports to execute delicate airdrome information for which they are not trained. Trump and Republicans are failing to support communities harmless and posing risks to families crossed America."

Another video shows respective San Francisco constabulary officers lasting nearby. SFPD said it does not assistance successful enforcing civilian national migration laws and was lone connected country to support nationalist safety.