A postal worker was arrested for allegedly helping a man briefly escape detention from Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Long Island.

Tamara Mayorga-Wong, 57, was charged with obstructing a federal proceeding over the incident from Nov. 5 in front of a 7-Eleven convenience store next to a post office in Westhampton.

Mayorga-Wong scolded a bilingual deportation officer by asking in English as well as Spanish, 'Why are you doing this to your people?'

Homeland Security Investigations said the man had been placed in the back of a police vehicle when Mayorga-Wong ran up and opened the door to let him escape. She was wearing her USPS uniform at the time.

HSI said she told them, "You can't do this!"

The detention officers were able to nab the detained man again, and they went t

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