Armed ICE agents realized it was the wrong house mid-raid and still emptied the family’s life savings before leaving
In a terrifying raid early Thursday in Oklahoma City, around 20 federal immigration agents stormed the wrong home, yanking a mother and her three daughters out of bed and into the cold morning air—barely clothed and completely blindsided. The officers took everything from phones to laptops to the family’s entire savings, all without hitting the right target.
The family had only just arrived in Oklahoma two weeks ago, having relocated from Maryland. The mother, referred to by local news station KFOR as “Marisa,” said the agents—some in tactical gear—claimed to have a warrant, but the names on it had zero ties to her or her daughters.
“We just moved here from Maryland,” Marisa said. “We’re citizens. That’s what I kept saying. We’re citizens.”
Agents from U.S. Marshals, ICE, and the FBI were all involved, waking the household before dawn, forcing them outside without time to change, and combing through their belongings. They took anything remotely valuable, calling it “evidence.”
“I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,” said Marisa. “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.”
“They were very dismissive, very rough, very careless,” she continued. “I kept pleading. I kept telling them we weren’t criminals. They were treating us like criminals. We were here by ourselves. We didn’t do anything.”
One of the agents tried to brush off the entire raid with a cold, tone-deaf comment: “I know it was a little rough this morning.”
“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,” Marisa said. Despite everything, the agents refused to provide even basic contact information, telling her that it could take weeks—or even months—before her family’s property would be returned.
This kind of state-sponsored aggression has become the norm under Trump’s leadership, where tearing apart innocent lives has become standard operating procedure. The Oklahoma City raid wouldn’t be acceptable under any circumstance—not even against undocumented immigrants. But doing this to American citizens like Marisa? That’s unconscionable. Let’s hope some kind of justice is still possible—for her family and all others caught in this nightmare.
