'They treated us like animals' - Inside the epicentre of deportations in New York City
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Getty Images Monica Moreta Galarza was thrown to the ground when her husband was arrested outside immigration court in New York City
Monica Moreta Galarza felt relieved after her husband's routine immigration hearing at New York City's 26 Federal Plaza. A judge had ordered Rubén Abelardo Ortiz López to return to court in May, and she believed that meant a reprieve from his potential deportation to Ecuador. Instead, as soon as they stepped out of the courtroom with their children, she was torn from her husband's arms and thrown to the ground by immigration officers as they detained him. "One of them charged at me so aggressively that I was terrified, and he ended up throwing me to the ground,
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