Immigration agents push reporters at 26 Federal Plaza, hospitalized

Federal immigration agents shoved several journalists inside a Manhattan federal courthouse on Tuesday, leaving a photojournalist hospitalized after he struck his head, witnesses and video showed, in an incident that intensified scrutiny of enforcement operations at the busy immigration facility. The confrontation occurred at 26 Federal Plaza, which houses immigration courts and an ICE field office, as officers carried out an arrest on the 12th floor.

Video captured masked agents pushing an amNewYork reporter, Dean Moses, out of a public elevator as he followed a woman who had just left a hearing, and shoving freelance photographer Olga Fedorova to the floor. L. Vural Elibol, a visual journalist for Anadolu Agency, was later seen semiconscious on the hallway floor with his head injured; a nurse on site tended to him before paramedics placed him in a neck brace and wheeled him out on a stretcher. Witnesses said Elibol was later taken to a hospital.

A Department of Homeland Security official said officers were attempting to arrest an individual and were being swarmed by agitators and members of the press, which obstructed their operation. The official said agents repeatedly...