In Oklahoma, 20 federal agents raided the wrong house: a mother and her three daughters were forced out in pajamas, while phones, computers, and family savings were seized.
The woman, identified by local TV station KFOR as “Marisa,” had moved into the house only two weeks earlier after moving from Maryland to Oklahoma. The armed agents – belonging to U.S. Marshals, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the FBI – said they had a search warrant. However, the suspects named in the warrant did not live in the home and had no connection to the family.
“We just moved here from Maryland,” Marisa recounted. “We are American citizens. I kept repeating it: we are citizens.”
Despite this, officers woke up the family at dawn, forcing them out in their night clothes, then searched the entire home and seized personal belongings as “evidence” of an unspecified crime.
Marisa told the media, “I told them before they left that they took my phone for no reason. Now we have no more money. I just moved here, I have to feed my children. I need money for gas, I need to be able to move. How can you leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.”
“They were very dismissive, brusque, negligent,” he added. “I kept begging them, explaining that we were not criminals. But they treated us as such. We were on our own. And we were completely innocent.”
Officials reportedly told her that it could take days or even months for the seized items to be returned.
This incident, which could be part of ICE’s anti-immigration operations promoted by President Donald Trump’s policies, would also be unjustifiable against an undocumented immigrant family – even more so against U.S. citizens like Marisa and her daughters.
At this time, ICE has not yet issued an official statement on the incident.
