Overview

• A court-authorized warrant led ICE agents to raid an Oklahoma City home on April 24, mistakenly targeting a family of U.S. citizens instead of the intended suspects.
• The family, who had moved into the residence two weeks earlier, was forcibly removed and had their phones, computers, and life savings in cash seized during the operation.
• DHS acknowledged the error, attributing it to outdated information in the warrant, and pledged internal reviews to prevent similar incidents in the future.
• The raid was part of a larger human smuggling investigation that resulted in eight Guatemalan nationals being indicted, two of whom had prior criminal convictions.
• Confusion persists over interagency roles, as DHS, the FBI, and the U.S. Marshals Service provided conflicting accounts of their involvement in the raid.