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Oklahoma City family traumatized after Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids home

Posted by DefinitelyNotAFae
Tags: politics.usa, usa.ok.oklahoma city, republican party, donald trump, policy.immigration, immigration and customs enforcement, raids, author.spencer humphrey, source.kfor
https://kfor.com/news/local/were-citizens-oklahoma-city-family-traumatized-after-ice-raids-home-but-they-werent-suspects/

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Title
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
Authors
Spencer Humphrey/KFOR
Published
Apr 29 2025
Word count
804 words

3 comments

  1. DefinitelyNotAFae
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    A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were not the suspects the agents were looking for.

    The agents had a search warrant for the home, but the suspects listed on the warrant do not live in the house.

    The woman who actually lives in the house had just moved to Oklahoma City from Maryland with her family about two weeks earlier.

    Marisa said the agents tore apart every square inch of the house and what few belongings they had, seizing their phones, laptops and their life savings in cash as “evidence.”

    “I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,” she said. “I have to feed my children. I’m 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.”

    13 votes
  2. tauon
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    Really, I have nothing productive to contribute here, I can only express my anger. I don’t even live in the US, but this is appalling and disheartening. Offtopic: I wonder how they’ll react when...

    Really, I have nothing productive to contribute here, I can only express my anger. I don’t even live in the US, but this is appalling and disheartening.

    Offtopic: I wonder how they’ll react when someone finally shoots back at these cretins when they’re invading or kidnapping an innocent person or family again, whether metaphorically or literally.

    11 votes
  3. raze2012
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    Pretty disenheartening to have seen this kind of stuff happen for decades and the entire BLM initiatives ultimately feel fruitless, as these kinds of actions only seem to be getting worse and more...

    Pretty disenheartening to have seen this kind of stuff happen for decades and the entire BLM initiatives ultimately feel fruitless, as these kinds of actions only seem to be getting worse and more extreme now. We needed police reform well before Trump and now they are turning into literal brownshirts under his regime.

    In some ways, this is societal, though. America still has this sentiment of "hard on crime" instead of focusing on rehabilitation and proportional force, and that's a part of why this hasn't been drowned down in sheer unpopularity. Many keep thinking "if this happened they must have deserved it", not thinking they could ever be subject to this.

    4 votes