Oklahoma household say they’re ‘traumatized for life’ after being mistakenly focused in ICE raid | EUROtoday

An Oklahoma mom and her daughters, all U.S. residents, have been reportedly topic to a violent and humiliating raid by federal immigration brokers final week, regardless of allegedly not being the supposed targets of the operation.

“It was so denigrating. That you do all of this to a family, to women, your fellow citizens,” the mom, utilizing the pseudonym Marisa, advised KFOR of the raid.

“You literally traumatized me and my daughters for life,” she added. “We’re going to have to go get help or get over this somehow.”

Early Thursday morning, a multi-agency crew of brokers burst into the Oklahoma City rental residence the place the household had simply settled after shifting from Maryland, based on Marisa.

The brokers demanded the girl and her daughters go outdoors earlier than they have been capable of absolutely become day garments, she stated.

“They wanted me to change in front of all of them, in between all of them,” Marisa advised KFOR. “My husband has not even seen my daughter in her undergarments—her own dad, because it’s respectful. You have her out there, a minor, in her underwear.”

Agents advised the household they’d a search warrant, although it named a person who appeared to have been a earlier tenant of the house, Marisa stated.

Nonetheless, the officers tore by the house and seized telephones and far of the girl’s life financial savings in money as proof, whereas declining to depart a enterprise card or give any indication of when she’d get her property again, Marisa stated.

“I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,” she added in her KFOR interview. “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.”

The mom stated that the brokers recognized themselves as members of the FBI, the US Marshals, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The Marshals denied taking part within the raid, whereas the FBI advised the outlet it had assisted on the case.

The Independent has contacted the Department of Homeland Security, ICE’s father or mother company, for remark.

In February, Oklahoma finalized a number of agreements with federal officers to extend cooperation on immigration operations as a part of its “Operation Guardian.”

Multiple U.S. residents have been mistakenly detained as a part of a push from the Trump administration and its allies to extend immigration enforcement.

As a part of the crackdown, the Trump administration has additionally resumed pursuing so-called “collateral arrests“ of people who weren’t the supposed goal of immigration raids however who have been nonetheless encountered by officers.

Such arrests have been the topic of a 2022 class motion settlement, placing strict limitations on how officers use such arrests.