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Mom Says ICE Agents Humiliated Her Family in Mistaken Raid

A mother alleged ICE forced her and her daughters to stand outside in the rain in their underwear during a raid targeting the wrong family.

A woman says Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and other federal agents raided her Oklahoma City home and forced her family to stand outside in the rain in their underwear. The woman, referred to as “Marisa” by KFOR, had moved with her three daughters from Maryland just two weeks earlier. On Thursday morning, around 20 armed men allegedly stormed their home, identifying themselves as federal immigration agents, and ordered family outside before they could get dressed. “They wanted me to change in front of all of them, in between all of them,” Marisa told KFOR. “You have her out there, a minor, in her underwear.” Marisa said the search warrant did not include her family’s names. A senior official at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) admitted that the address’ previous residents were the intended targets. The official told the Daily Beast the raid was part of a “large-scale human smuggling investigation.” Marisa told KFOR, “We just moved here from Maryland. We’re citizens. That’s what I kept saying. We’re citizens.” The agents reportedly seized their phones, laptops, and life savings as “evidence,” leaving Marisa with no idea how to get them back. She said that before leaving, an agent acknowledged that the family’s morning might have been “a little rough.” Marisa called the remark “denigrating”, adding: “You literally traumatized me and my daughters for life.”