{"id":49,"date":"2025-05-01T11:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:11:12","slug":"u-s-citizen-family-traumatized-after-ice-raided-their-oklahoma-home-in-search-of-someone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-citizen family ‘traumatized’ after ICE raided their Oklahoma home in search of someone else"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal immigration agents searched the home of a family in Oklahoma and seized their belongings when conducting a search warrant issued for someone else.<\/p>\n

The U.S. citizen mother of three daughters said the family has been “traumatized<\/a>” since they were wrongly subjected to a search and seizure warrant that had the names of the residents who previously lived in her Oklahoma City home.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re citizens. That\u2019s what I kept saying. We\u2019re citizens,\u201d\u00a0the woman told KFOR<\/a>, an NBC-affiliated local TV news station. \u201cThey were very dismissive, very rough, very careless.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re citizens. That\u2019s what I kept saying. We\u2019re citizens,\u201d\u00a0the woman told KFOR<\/a>, an NBC-affiliated local TV news station. \u201cThey were very dismissive, very rough, very careless.”<\/p>\n

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According to KFOR, which first reported the story, the immigration agents raided the home last week. They had a search warrant for the home, but the suspects listed on the warrant were not living in the house anymore.<\/p>\n

About 20 armed agents busted through the door in the middle of the night, KFOR reported.<\/p>\n

At first, the mother didn’t know who they were. \u201cIt was dark. All the lights were off,\u201d she said. “My initial thought was we were being robbed \u2014 that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped.”<\/p>\n

The mother, whose identity was not revealed and who KFOR referred to by the pseudonym “Marisa” in its reporting, told the TV station the men who entered her home identified themselves as federal agents with the U.S. Marshals Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n

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“The U.S. Marshal Service was not involved in the incident,” Brady McCarron, deputy chief of public affairs at the United States Marshals Service, told NBC News in an email Tuesday.<\/p>\n

‘We didn’t do anything’<\/h2>\n

A spokesperson for the FBI referred NBC News’ request for comment to Homeland Security Investigations, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security that investigates criminal cases.<\/p>\n

A senior DHS official confirmed to NBC News on Wednesday that ICE carried out “a court-authorized search warrant for a large-scale human smuggling investigation,” involving eight Guatemalan nationals indicted in a federal case in the Northern District of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe search warrants included the location of an address where U.S. citizens recently moved. The previous residents were the intended targets,” the official said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The mother and her daughters wrongly targeted had recently moved from Maryland, settling in the rented home in Oklahoma City just a couple of weeks ago \u2014 hoping for a slower, more affordable lifestyle, KFOR reported. The father was set to join the family in their new home this weekend.<\/div>\n
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Though none of the family members were the subjects of the warrant, federal agents raided their home and confiscated their belongings. They took their phones, laptops and all their cash savings as “evidence,” KFOR reported.<\/p>\n

“I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,\u201d the mother said. \u201cI have to feed my children. I\u2019m going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI kept pleading. I kept telling them we weren\u2019t criminals. They were treating us like criminals. We were here by ourselves. We didn\u2019t do anything,” the mother added.<\/p>\n

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She said the agents ordered her and her daughters to step outside, even though it was raining and they barely were given time to put on clothes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey wanted me to change in front of all of them, in between all of them,\u201d she said. \u201cMy husband has not even seen my daughter in her undergarments \u2014 her own dad, because it\u2019s respectful. You have her out there, a minor, in her underwear,\u201d the woman told KFOR.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of them said, \u2018I know it was a little rough this morning,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cIt was so denigrating. That you do all of this to a family, to women, your fellow citizens. And it was a little rough? You literally traumatized me and my daughters for life. We\u2019re going to have to go get help or get over this somehow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the agents left, the mother asked when could the family get their belongings back and they said it could be days or even months, KFOR reported.<\/p>\n

DHS did not comment on how the mother described and characterized the actions of the agents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n