They moved from Maryland into a nightmare.
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. -OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR)
They moved to Oklahoma City (OKC) from Maryland for more affordability and a slower pace of life, The father stayed in Maryland tying up loose ends you have when you move your entire family of 5, thousands of miles away.
The woman, KFOR calls “Marisa,” and her 3 daughters were sleeping when their home was raided by 20 well armed men.
Marisa said the men identified themselves as federal agents with the U.S. Marshals, ICE, and the FBI.
The armed men said they had a search warrant, except it was for people who didn’t live there. The family had only moved to their OKC home 2 weeks ago.
She said they ordered her and her daughters outside into the rain before they could even put on clothes.
“They wanted me to change in front of all of them, in between all of them,” she said. “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.”
They are citizens of the USA
“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.”
Before they left, Marisa said one of the agents made a comment.
“One of them said, ‘I know it was a little rough this morning,’” she said. “It 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’re going to have to go get help or get over this somehow.”
Now the US Marshal’s Service and the FBI disavow any part in this, though Home Land Security/ICE has not. But they say they’re looking into this. Marisa says she has no idea which agency to approach to get their phones, electronics and cash back.
And here is what women all over the country have been saying since Rumeysa Ozturk was arrested by law enforcement without visible ID on. These agencies are creating an opportunity for individuals and gangs to claim they are from the government to harass, kidnap, invade homes, steal, possibly rape and murder.
What if one homeowner, or even Marisa herself, had used “stand your ground?” What would have happened to her for shooting an ICE agent?
What if Home Land Security/ICE disavow this too?
Only KFOR seems to be on this for the moment.
Video of the report is here
Link to article is here
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Update #1
Thanks to AvoidAmnesia for letting me know that New Republic is on this too. It didn’t show up when I searched. Here’s the The New Republic article.
Please show AvoidAmnesia’s comment some love, especially for this pull out
It all fits a pattern of cruelty from the Trump administration in its efforts to deport as many people as it can. The White House doesn’t believe in due process or following the law, or even standards of basic decency. The violent raid in Oklahoma City would be wrong even against a family of undocumented immigrants, let alone U.S. citizens like Marisa and her daughters. Hopefully, she and other victims of the administration’s wanton behavior can get restitution.
AvoidAmnesia informed me that the quote above is from a different incident and the USA Today article on it.
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Update #2
Rachel Maddow covered this tonight.
She continued
The Bulwark has video of another arrest at a court house, which shows/answers some questions you’ll find in the comments on this dairy.
Some commenters on the Bulwark video are wondering if the Proud Boys, J6 rioters, other Trump loyal militia groups, etc. have been deputized to do this.
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Update #3
I apologize for not updating sooner. For some reason I couldn’t sleep last night (sarcasm). I know the reason, it is this incident.
We could ask the same words Joseph Welch spoke to Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" to Donald Trump and MAGA. But we already know the answer, and it is no.
Sample of others now covering this
The Hill
Newsweek
The Independent
Yahoo News
Reaction on Bluesky
The response was that these people exist all over the deep south.
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Update #4 — April 30, 2025
Rachel Maddow lead her show tonight (the last show where she’s on every night) with this story.
I am working on getting a video to post here, but I can tell you that the agency that raided this family is HSI or Homeland Security Investigations. HSI has not returned any of their calls.
From the HSI opening page. (Please do not read with any food in your mouth)
HSI protects what matters most – our country, our people and our future. What makes us unique is the global nature of the crimes we investigate and the broad legal authorities available to us to combat them.
No word on how their “mission statement” applies to terrorizing a mom and her 3 daughters, all US Citizens.
