A federal immigration officer who shoved an Ecuadorian woman to the floor at a Manhattan court is "being relieved of current duties,” the Department of Homeland Security said Friday in a rare rebuke of one of its officers.

The altercation, which was captured on videos that spread quickly on social media, unfolded after the woman's husband was arrested at an immigration court in New York City.

Footage shows the woman approach the immigration officer following her husband's arrest, pleading with the officer in Spanish and at one point saying “You don’t care about anything,” before he pushes her into a wall and then onto the floor of a crowded hallway.

“The officer’s conduct in this video is unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE," said Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary at

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