ICE

Masked ICE agents detain migrants after immigration court hearings during Trump’s controversial mass deportation effort in NY on July 16, 2025. After an arduous journey seeking asylum, these are final steps to a new destiny. “Take me, not him – they will kill him!” screamed Monica as she was violently thrown to the floor. Desperate daughters futilely hold on to their father’s shirt. A woman is led in shackles. In a tender moment of humanity, a security guard weeps while viewing the despair of a mother and child. Sometimes it is the quiet moments that resonate most profoundly in the collective conscience of a nation.

Children are traumatized, caught in the crossfire. “Why are you taking my father away from me? He is the only one I have,” wept Scarlett, 10. She makes drawings of Jesus protecting her Papa. Anita and her two girls struggle, one of many broken families. Ashley celebrated her third birthday as her father languishes in detention. They hold onto fragile hope awaiting an uncertain future.

There is a vast political divide. Some protest. Others applaud. Daily, detentions continue.

Carol Guzy

Carol Guzy was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and lived there until 1978 when she completed her studies at Northampton County Area Community College, graduating with an Associate's degree in Registered Nursing.  A change of heart led her to the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale in Florida to study photography. She graduated in 1980 with an Associate in Applied Science degree in Photography.

While at the Art Institute, she interned at The Miami Herald and upon graduation was hired as a staff photographer. She spent eight years at the newspaper before moving to Washington, DC in 1988 where she became a staff photographer at The Washington Post through 2014.  She is currently freelance.

She is the first journalist to receive a fourth Pulitzer for her coverage of the Haitian earthquake in 2010.  Previously she was honored twice with the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for her coverage of the military intervention in Haiti and the devastating mudslide in Armero, Colombia.  She has received a third Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for her work in Kosovo.

Guzy has been named Photographer of the Year for the National Press Photographers Association three times and eight times for the White House News Photographers Association and has earned many other prestigious awards in photojournalism. She specializes in long-form documentary projects, news and feature stories— both domestic and international—and is currently a contract photographer with ZUMA Press.