Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall is publicly questioning the forcible detainment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents of a woman in the baggage claim area of Salt Lake City International Airport.

Video taken by Shannon Hale of Wednesday afternoon's incident shows a woman, later identified as Marta Brizeyda Renderos Leiva, screaming while being brought through the airport by plain-clothed ICE agents. A woman can be heard asking agents to "have mercy" on the lady.

"I am left wondering and aching from the fear and pain these types of operations keep striking in my heart and the hearts of so many of us," Mendenhall said of the incident.

In a statement provided by ICE, they said the 39-year-old Leiva was in the country illegally from El Salvador, and she was arrested as pa

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