ICE is a thug unit run by a major thug. This family was badly mistreated, in some ways brutalized. I read earlier where the mother said the 20 ICE agents who broke into their home with no warring then wanted the women, one adult and the others teenagers to remove their clothing in front of them to get dressed before being forced outside in the rain. The report said the mother refused saying even her husband had not seen the children nude and she did not want them to do that in front of these men. They were ordered in their “underwear” outside in the rain where they were kept for hours. Is this the government / police any way people should be treated by law enforcement in the US. They so disrespected this family sure in the fact they were correct with no room for any doubt. They had no empathy, no common sense. In the time I was an axillary sheriff’s deputy we were trained never to act like that. We were taught to respect the rights of people but be aware they might be lying and the danger of the situation. Respect the rights of the people. All people on US soil, in the country regardless of status have due process rights. The right wing haters want to tell you that if you are here illegally you have no rights but SCOTUS has repeatedly said every person here does. Hugs
As for Marissa’s phones, electronics, and cash, they have no idea which agency has those belongings or how to get those items back.
At this time, there is not a fundraising campaign set up for the family. KFOR will share any details if that happens.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — 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.
The woman, who News 4 will refer to as “Marisa”, and her three daughters came to Oklahoma looking for a slower, more affordable pace of life.
They rented a house in a seemingly safe northwest Oklahoma City neighborhood.
Her husband stayed back in Maryland a couple of extra weeks, planning to join them this weekend.
“I was like, ‘okay, Oklahoma’s my home now,’” Marisa said.
But any comfort they had disappeared Thursday morning when about 20 men, armed with guns, busted through the door.
“I don’t know who they were,” she said. “It was dark. All the lights were off.”
Marisa said the men identified themselves as federal agents with the U.S. Marshals, ICE, and the FBI.
On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Service denied having agents present during the raid, telling News 4 they were “aware of the operation before it happened,” but did not assist in any capacity.
“I keep asking them, ‘who are you? What are you doing here? What’s happening,’” she said. “And they said, ‘we have a warrant for the house, a search warrant.’”
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.”
Marisa said the names on the search warrant were not hers or anyone in her family.
She recognized them as names listed on mail still arriving at the house—likely former residents.
“We just moved here from Maryland,” she said. “We’re citizens. That’s what I kept saying. We’re citizens.”
She said the agents didn’t care.
“They were very dismissive, very rough, very careless,” she said. “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.”
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.”
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, Marisa said they have, quite literally, nothing.
“I said, ‘when are we going to get our stuff back?’ They said it could be days or it could be months,” she said.
Marisa said she is left with nothing but questions.
“What if I would have been armed,” she said. “You’re breaking in. What am I supposed to think? My initial thought was we were being robbed—that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped. You have guns pointed in our faces.Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women?A little bit of mercy. Care a little bit about your fellow human, about your fellow citizen, fellow resident. We bleed too. We work. We bleed just like anybody else bleeds. We’re scared. You could see our faces that we were terrified. What makes you so much more worthier of your peace? What makes you so much more worthier of protecting your children? What makes you so much more worthy of your citizenship? What makes you more worthy of safety? Of being given the right that they took from me to protect my daughters?”
Marisa told News 4 the agents wouldn’t even leave her a business card.
She said she has no idea who to contact to get her things back.
Marissa told KFOR the U.S. Marshal’s Service and the FBI were involved in this raid.
However, a representative for the U.S. Marshal’s Service says their team was not involved.
News 4 reached out to the FBI. Last week, a spokesperson said they were assisting on this case and directed inquiries to Homeland Security.
A spokesperson for Homeland Security told News 4 they are looking into it and will get back to us, but we have not heard from them.
As for Marissa’s phones, electronics, and cash, they have no idea which agency has those belongings or how to get those items back.
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This is the way to make America great? I suspect this is going to be the new norm for the next four years.
Hi Barry. What made the US the nation it used to be was the idea that we were a nation of laws and while no one is above the laws at the same time everyone is treated equally. The last one fell some time ago due to racism. The first two died at the hands of Trump. The idea of no one above the laws of the nation Trump destroyed during his years out of office as he did everything he could to stop his court cases and in one used a corrupt judge to basically end the case illegally. The idea of a nations of laws trump is destroying right now as he refuses to do as the courts rule and in one case claims he won the case when the administration actually lost the case. He is ruling like a king ignoring congress and the constitution. His minions in congress are so scared of him both politically and physically afraid of violence from the cult members that they bow to him doing everything he commands. Best wishes.
He’s ruling like a dictator or absolute ruler, not like a king. I live in a nation who’s head of state is a king, and in that role, the king can act only on the advice of his cabinet. He does not rule, nor can he.
So I take (a small level of) offence when Trump is described as acting like a king. Even the collective responsibility of the entire cabinet is to govern, not rule, and they can be fired at any time by parliament, by a simple majority, passing a vote of no confidence in the government.
I have stated before that my view is that when the US constitution was created they granted the president more power than even the King of England had at that time. I know it’s a common myth in the US, but King George III did not impose taxes on the American colonies – It was Parliament that did that. The king signed it into law as he was constitutionally required to do – no right of veto.
Both the NZ and US systems have three separate branches of government – Executive, legislative and judiciary, and while in the US theoretically they are equal but separate, it’s blindingly clear that it means nothing when there’s a “rogue” element in one or more of those branches.
I’m not sure if our system is intrinsically better, but it seems to have worked in our favour for 185 years – that is the doctrine of the supremacy of parliament. In theory it doesn’t have the level of checks and balances that are built into the American system but on the other hand, it’s more responsive to changes when that need arises. Perhaps because it requires a high degree of consensus, cooperation and multi-partisan agreement to work at all, we are less likely to allow a situation where bitterness, hatred and unilateral decision making to arise, as is the current state of affairs in the US. I’m biased of course, but I prefer our constantly evolving constitutional arrangement over the somewhat outdated document the US must live with.
Hi Barry. Thanks for the correction and the information. I did not know / understand that about kings in the past. We use the term king because our schools teach us kings have all power including who lives or dies, and of course that is what we see in movies. tRump has made such a mess of the US governing system it will take decades to fix if we even get the chance. He has his white supremacist hater of poor people Stephen Miller suing the supreme Court chief John Roberts and the courts to give the White House complete control over the court system. Letting the president who is tRump put pressure on every judge to rule in his favor. Best wishes.
What Trump is advocating is a doctrine of the supremacy of the president. Or perhaps, with the support of the religious right, the divine right of the president.
BTW the divine right of the king, which had been disputed in England for centuries was finally settled for good after the English civil war in the 17th century, and it’s Parliament that chooses the monarch – there’s no hereditary right to the throne except as Parliament determines.
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This is the way to make America great? I suspect this is going to be the new norm for the next four years.
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Hi Barry. What made the US the nation it used to be was the idea that we were a nation of laws and while no one is above the laws at the same time everyone is treated equally. The last one fell some time ago due to racism. The first two died at the hands of Trump. The idea of no one above the laws of the nation Trump destroyed during his years out of office as he did everything he could to stop his court cases and in one used a corrupt judge to basically end the case illegally. The idea of a nations of laws trump is destroying right now as he refuses to do as the courts rule and in one case claims he won the case when the administration actually lost the case. He is ruling like a king ignoring congress and the constitution. His minions in congress are so scared of him both politically and physically afraid of violence from the cult members that they bow to him doing everything he commands. Best wishes.
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He’s ruling like a dictator or absolute ruler, not like a king. I live in a nation who’s head of state is a king, and in that role, the king can act only on the advice of his cabinet. He does not rule, nor can he.
So I take (a small level of) offence when Trump is described as acting like a king. Even the collective responsibility of the entire cabinet is to govern, not rule, and they can be fired at any time by parliament, by a simple majority, passing a vote of no confidence in the government.
I have stated before that my view is that when the US constitution was created they granted the president more power than even the King of England had at that time. I know it’s a common myth in the US, but King George III did not impose taxes on the American colonies – It was Parliament that did that. The king signed it into law as he was constitutionally required to do – no right of veto.
Both the NZ and US systems have three separate branches of government – Executive, legislative and judiciary, and while in the US theoretically they are equal but separate, it’s blindingly clear that it means nothing when there’s a “rogue” element in one or more of those branches.
I’m not sure if our system is intrinsically better, but it seems to have worked in our favour for 185 years – that is the doctrine of the supremacy of parliament. In theory it doesn’t have the level of checks and balances that are built into the American system but on the other hand, it’s more responsive to changes when that need arises. Perhaps because it requires a high degree of consensus, cooperation and multi-partisan agreement to work at all, we are less likely to allow a situation where bitterness, hatred and unilateral decision making to arise, as is the current state of affairs in the US. I’m biased of course, but I prefer our constantly evolving constitutional arrangement over the somewhat outdated document the US must live with.
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Hi Barry. Thanks for the correction and the information. I did not know / understand that about kings in the past. We use the term king because our schools teach us kings have all power including who lives or dies, and of course that is what we see in movies. tRump has made such a mess of the US governing system it will take decades to fix if we even get the chance. He has his white supremacist hater of poor people Stephen Miller suing the supreme Court chief John Roberts and the courts to give the White House complete control over the court system. Letting the president who is tRump put pressure on every judge to rule in his favor. Best wishes.
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What Trump is advocating is a doctrine of the supremacy of the president. Or perhaps, with the support of the religious right, the divine right of the president.
BTW the divine right of the king, which had been disputed in England for centuries was finally settled for good after the English civil war in the 17th century, and it’s Parliament that chooses the monarch – there’s no hereditary right to the throne except as Parliament determines.
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