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"Even after 100 days of nightly headlines about federal immigration cops gone
wild — smashing car windows, descending on schools and courthouses, wrongly
deporting dads, or donning masks and handcuffing stunned university students on
the sidewalk — the latest story out of Oklahoma City is so shocking it might
prove a tipping point.
There, a shell-shocked and weeping U.S. citizen and mom who only gave reporters
her first name, Marisa, told journalists about the recent night when 20 federal
agents raided her family’s new home, forced her and her two daughters out into
a rain-soaked street in their underwear, ransacked the place and took all their
electronics and cash.
“I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I
just moved here,” the distraught Marisa told an Oklahoma City TV station,
KFOR. “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 search warrant brandished by the agents sought someone else, who wasn’t at
the home where Marisa and her daughters had moved a few weeks ago. As is often
the case in 2025’s stepped-up immigration raids, it wasn’t exactly clear who
the agents were or even which agency they worked for. Although initial news
accounts attributed the operation to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
or ICE, subsequent reports suggested the officers were from ICE’s sister
agency, the little known Homeland Security Investigations. The 6,000-member HSI
is a cornerstone of an ascendant secret police in America.
One of the federal raiders who busted up the Oklahoma City home almost sounded
apologetic, telling Marisa: “I know it was a little rough this morning.” That
doesn’t really cut it."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
