A federal agent restrains a woman on Thursday at an immigration courthouse in New York City. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images

Videos showing a federal agent shoving a woman to the ground during a confrontation at an immigration courthouse in New York on Thursday have prompted outrage and calls for disciplinary action.

In one video shared on social media, a woman and a girl are seen clinging with locked arms to a man, reportedly the woman’s husband, who is being detained, in a hallway of 26 Federal Plaza, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement District Office in Lower Manhattan.

One masked agent grabs her hair as someone says, “Just grab her, grab her and pull her away.” Moments after separating the woman and the man, she is removed from the hallway into a nearby room.

It’s unclear how l

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