2025 Best in Show

Carol Guzy - Domestic (U.S.) General News Picture Story

2025 Best in Show - Domestic (U.S.) General News Picture Story

ICE Migrants line up in the lobby of the Jacob Javits Federal building in NY near a wall bearing a portrait of President Donald Trump and the Preamble to the US Constitution. Upstairs masked ICE agents and federal officers in balaclavas and sunglasses detain people after court hearings during this administrations controversial immigration reform policies amid a mass deportation effort. They stand outside courtrooms with papers bearing photos of their target. After an arduous journey seeking asylum and the American dream, some react with anguish and tears, others walk quietly on their final steps to a new destiny. Most heart-wrenching are family separations. Cochas traumatized children desperately grab their fathers shirt, futilely holding on. Take me, not him they will kill him! screamed Monica, a distraught woman from Ecuador as the family was pulled away from her husband. She was violently thrown to the floor as her children wept. She was taken to a nearby hospital to be examined for head injury. The officer was relieved of duties pending investigation, and then reinstated. A woman is led in shackles on the 10th floor where migrants are held. There is a legal injunction requiring ICE to comply with conditions for a limited number of people. Elected officials are denied access. In a tender moment of humanity, a security guard also sheds tears viewing the sorrow of a mother and child, lost in despair. Please help me, please help me. Take me too. she wept as her husband was led away. There is a vast political divide. Some participate in prayer walks and protests, decrying a lack of due process with echoes of Nazi Germany and a slippery slide into fascism. A woman screamed with indignation, We angry. We all angry out here. Others applaud. And daily, detentions continue.

Carol Guzy

2025 Best in Show - Domestic (U.S.) General News Picture Story

A man who said he was a US citizen defiantly confronts ICE agents as detainments continue during immigration court hearings at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York NY on September 9, 2025. He was released without arrest.

Carol Guzy

2025 Best in Show - Domestic (U.S.) General News Picture Story

Migrants line up in the lobby of the Jacob Javits Federal building near a wall bearing a portrait of President Donald Trump and the Preamble to the US Constitution as ICE agents and federal officers detain people after they attend court hearings during this administrations controversial immigration reform policies in New York NY on August 5, 2025.

Carol Guzy

2025 Best in Show - Domestic (U.S.) General News Picture Story

Distraught young girls cling to their father, a migrant from Ecuador, as he is detained by ICE after his immigration court hearing at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York NY on August 26, 2025.

Carol Guzy

2025 Best in Show - Domestic (U.S.) General News Picture Story

Masked agents and federal officers assisting ICE wait outside courtrooms bearing papers with photographs of their target as migrants are detained after attending immigration court hearings at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York NY on July 8, 2025.

Carol Guzy

2025 Best in Show - Domestic (U.S.) General News Picture Story

ICE agents and federal officers detain migrants after they attend immigration court hearings at the Jabob Javits Federal Building in New York NY on July 28, 2025. Many migrants initially react with shock, then hopeless acceptance or anguish and tears.

Carol Guzy

2025 Best in Show - Domestic (U.S.) General News Picture Story

Take me, not him they will kill him! screamed Monica, a distraught woman from Ecuador as she and her children were pulled away from her husband as he was detained by ICE after his immigration court hearing at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York NY on September 25, 2025. She continued to plead with an officer and was violently thrown to the floor as her children wept. She was taken to a nearby hospital to be examined for head injury. The officer was relieved of duties pending investigation, and then reinstated.

Carol Guzy

2025 Best in Show - Domestic (U.S.) General News Picture Story

Rosa, 12 years old, from Ecuador is pulled away from her father as he was detained by ICE after his immigration court hearing at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York NY on September 25, 2025. Her distraught mother Monica screamed Take me, not him they will kill him! as she pleaded with an officer and was violently thrown to the floor as her children wept.

Carol Guzy

2025 Best in Show - Domestic (U.S.) General News Picture Story

A woman is led in shackles on the 10th floor of the Jacob Javits Federal Building where migrants are held in detention as ICE detainments continue after immigration court hearings in New York NY on October 2, 2025. There is now a legal injunction requiring ICE to comply with certain conditions to house a limited number of people on the floor. Elected officials are denied access.

Carol Guzy

2025 Best in Show - Domestic (U.S.) General News Picture Story

Protestors are arrested as they engage in civil disobedience during a rally against US President Donald Trumps controversial immigration reform policies as ICE agents detain migrants after their court hearings at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York NY on August 8, 2025. There is a vast political divide. Some participate in prayer walks and protests, decrying a lack of due process with echoes of Nazi Germany and a slippery slide into fascism. A woman screamed with indignation, We angry. We all angry out here. Others applaud. And daily, detentions continue.

Carol Guzy

2025 Best in Show - Domestic (U.S.) General News Picture Story

Father Fabian Arias from Saint Peters Church leads a prayer walk around the Jacob Javits Federal Building in protest as ICE detains migrants after their immigration court hearings at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York NY on July 17, 2025. There is a vast political divide. Some participate in prayer walks and protests, decrying a lack of due process with echoes of Nazi Germany and a slippery slide into fascism. A woman screamed with indignation, We angry. We all angry out here. Others applaud. And daily, detentions continue.

Carol Guzy

2025 Best in Show - Domestic (U.S.) General News Picture Story

A security guard breaks down in tears in a moment of tender humanity while witnessing the heartbreak of a distraught woman from Ecuador 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 NY on August 20, 2025. 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 often tangled in the middle of ICE, migrants, observers, activists and press as courthouse dynamics play out in this new normal in America. Daily, detentions continue.

Carol Guzy