Published WEDNESDAY, December 31, 2025: 'ICED' Pictures by 4 time Pulitzer Prize winning ZUMA Press photographer Carol Guzy: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wait outside New York's immigration court to arrest individuals immediately after their hearings, often as people exit courtrooms turning routine check-ins into 'deportation traps' for migrants seeking asylum. Detentions lead to families being torn apart, causing immense trauma, as parents are suddenly gone, leaving children behind often without explanation or proper care. There is a vast political divide. Some participate in prayer walks and protests, decrying a lack of due process claiming troubling parallel's to fascism and authoritarianism. A woman screamed with indignation, 'We angry. We all angry out here.' Others applaud. Welcome to 'ICED'
© zReportage.com Issue #1021 Story of the Week: Published WEDNESDAY, December 31, 2025: 'ICED' Pictures by 4 time Pulitzer Prize winning ZUMA Press photographer Carol Guzy: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE wait outside New York's immigration court to arrest individuals immediately after their hearings, often as people exit courtrooms turning routine check-ins into 'deportation traps' for migrants seeking asylum. Detentions lead to families being torn apart, causing immense trauma, as parents are suddenly gone, leaving children behind often without explanation or proper care. There is a vast political divide. Some participate in prayer walks and protests, decrying a lack of due process claiming troubling parallel's to fascism and authoritarianism. A woman screamed with indignation, 'We angry. We all angry out here.' Others applaud. Welcome to 'ICED'

Masked ICE agents and federal officers detain people after they attend hearings at immigration court in the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire

A man struggles in fear as ICE detainments continue as migrants leave their immigration court hearings at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire

Young girls scream and cling to their loved one, a migrant from Ecuador, as he is detained by ICE after his immigration court hearing at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire

A court observer assists as a woman and her children from Ecuador weep after her husband was detained by ICE agents and federal officers after their immigration court hearings at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York. Later a security guard breaks down in tears in a moment of tender humanity while witnessing their heartbreak. The family was inconsolable with despair. Security guards are tangled in the middle of ICE, migrants, observers, activists and press as courthouse dynamics play out in this new normal in America. Sometimes it's the quiet moments that reach most deeply into the collective conscience of a nation.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire

ROSA, (12) from Ecuador is pulled away from her father Ruben as he was detained by ICE after his immigration court hearing at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York. Since then she struggled with traumatic memories and suffering with nightmares. She felt guilty that she couldn't pull her father away from the ICE agents that fateful day. She apologized, 'Mom, forgive me because I couldn't hug my dad well. If I had hugged him well, they wouldn't have taken him.' They are seeking a therapist to help her heal.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire

A family weeps after their loved one, a migrant from Ecuador, is detained by ICE after his immigration court hearing at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire

ICE agents and federal officers detain a woman after her hearing at immigration court in New York.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire

'We angry. We all angry out here!' screamed a woman as she reacted with indignation and rage as ICE detained her loved one after his immigration court hearing at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York. 'What's wrong with you guys?' she asked. 'We don't like none of you,' A security guard stepped in and de-escalated the situation, moving her to an elevator as one of the agents threatened her with arrest for yelling at them. 'Don' come up in my face because I hit hard. You try me and see what the fuck happens. You want to hit me? Hit me, why you got to hide your face.' My face ain't hidden bitch. 'I'm American.' Before the doors closed she addressed the press. 'Put that on the news. Let Trump see it.'
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire

An ICE agent threatens photojournalist STEPHANIE KEITH with arrest if she continues to shove them or impede detainments at immigration court at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire

'Take me, not him, they will kill him!' screamed a distraught woman from Ecuador as she and her children were pulled away from her husband as he was detained by ICE agents after his immigration court hearing at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York. She continued to plead with officers and was thrown to the floor as her children wept.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire

Anti-ICE activist on pavement being arrested by NYPD. Part of large group who were blocking ICE immigration agents from leaving a garage where they were thought to be staging for a raid on Canal Street in New York. NYPD escorted their vans and arrests were made.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire

Protestors are arrested as they engage in civil disobedience during a rally against US President Trump's reform tactics as ICE agents detain migrants after their immigration court hearings at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York. There is a vast political divide.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire

Migrants line up in the lobby of the Jacob Javits Federal building near a wall bearing a portrait of President Trump and the Preamble to the US Constitution as ICE agents and federal officers detain migrants after they attend immigration court hearings during this administration's controversial reform policies amid a mass deportation effort in New York.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire

Priests pray besdie Federal agents as ICE detainments continue as people leave their immigration court hearings at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire

A security guard breaks down in tears in a moment of tender humanity while witnessing the heartbreak of a distraught migrant woman and her children after her husband was detained by ICE as they left his immigration court hearing at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York. The family was inconsolable with despair. 'Please help me, please help me. Take me too.' she wept as he was led away. Security guards are tangled in the middle of ICE, migrants, observers, activists and press as courthouse dynamics play out in this new normal in America. Sometimes it's the quiet moments that reach most deeply into the collective conscience of a nation.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire