posted<\/a> footage of the incident on Facebook. She said two ICE agents approached Gorb in a store in Terminal 3.<\/p>\n\u201cThey put hands on her, pulled her down to the ground, and we see the agent get on top of her,\u201d Robinson said.<\/p>\n
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Doria Robinson speaks at the West Contra Costa United School District rally at Marina Bay Park in Richmond on Dec. 5, 2025.<\/p>\n
In the videos, Gorb can be heard yelling: \u201cThey\u2019re f\u2014n ICE, I\u2019m from Ukraine, please, somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n
She can be seen telling the agents to let her go, and heard saying, \u201cYou\u2019re f\u2014ing choking me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robinson said the officials did not respond to bystanders who asked them to identify themselves. They handcuffed Gorb to an airport wheelchair and rolled her away, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t right,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cIt just felt in your heart and your soul that that was not right. That was not the way we should be doing things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eblin said Gorb called him from an ICE field office in Stockton late Wednesday, and told him she had been detained and would be transferred to the California City Detention Facility. She asked him to tell her boss at Better Half Coffee in Nob Hill, where she is a head barista, and a few friends whom she was supposed to cat-sit for this week, that she would not be able to work. Eblin said Gorb also requested that he ask her neighbor to water her plants.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t think of a better explanation of Iryna as a person than those concerns,\u201d Eblin said. \u201cShe\u2019s a good person that helped out a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eblin said she was \u201cnot certain exactly\u201d why she was detained, and as far as he knew, she hadn\u2019t received any paperwork regarding her visa status.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eblin said that when he was able to connect with Gorb again Thursday evening, she had been transferred to California City and sounded \u201csubstantially rattled.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said she\u2019s expected to meet with an attorney Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOur predominant concern at this point is getting her released on bond so she\u2019s able to wait out any proceedings in a safe, dignified place and dignified setting, which California City is absolutely not,\u201d Eblin told KQED.<\/p>\n
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Passengers wait for their flight at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025.<\/p>\n
According to Milli Atkinson, director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Program at the San Francisco Bar Association, immigration advocates began seeing ICE detentions at airports outside of Customs and Border Patrol last year anecdotally, but in the last month, they have become a \u201cconsistent tactic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing now is ICE showing up at airports because they have information about travelers, they have ID information,\u201d she said. \u201cThe Department of Homeland Security includes TSA, so it just appears that TSA is now cooperating with ICE at a level that we haven\u2019t seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n
SFO spokesperson Doug Yakel said via email that ICE and DHS operate outside the jurisdiction of U.S. airports, and that SFO is \u201cnot involved in any decisions about their operations, nor are we notified when they occur.\u201d<\/p>\n
Atkinson said for people who are not U.S. citizens, \u201cnow is not a safe time to be traveling through airports unless you\u2019ve spoken to an attorney and you assess what risk there is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A friend coordinating her legal aid said the 38-year-old Ukrainian immigrant is in a federal immigration detention facility…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-411232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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