Hamza Adam 
A family in Oklahoma City said they would be traumatized for the rest of their lives after federal immigration agents raided their home, even though they are citizens.
The family wished to remain anonymous, but the woman who lives in the home told KFOR that they had moved from Maryland in the last two weeks. A search warrant for the home listed individuals who no longer lived there.
The woman said her family, including three daughters, had moved to Oklahoma in search of a lower cost of living and a slower pace of life.
On Thursday morning, 20 armed federal agents destroyed any sense of comfort by busting through the door. The men identified themselves as agents with the U.S. Marshals, ICE, and the FBI.
“They wanted me to change in front of all of them, in between all of them,” she recalled. “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.”
“We just moved here from Maryland,” the woman added. “We’re citizens. That’s what I kept saying. We’re citizens.”
The agents confiscated their phones, laptops, and life savings. The woman was informed that it could take days or months to retrieve the items.
“I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,” she explained. “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.”
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“You literally traumatized me and my daughters for life. We’re going to have to go get help or get over this somehow.”
The woman said she was left with nothing but questions.
“What if I would have been armed?” she asked. “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 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?”
Agents, however, refused even to leave a business card, KFOR reported.