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Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE mistakenly raids their home

92 points by pmags 1y ago

altairprime 1y ago
Perhaps they should consider a civil suit against Palantir.
- goku12 1y ago
  They've crossed the line far enough that a comparison with the Gestapo is no longer necessary. Their infamy in the world history is assured.
pmags 1y ago
What are the limits of Federal liability when ICE, the FBI, or some other random federal agency mistakenly raids your home? This very question is currently before the Supreme Court for an FBI raid of a wrong house: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/supreme-court-fbi-raid.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/supreme-court...
- ch4s3 1y ago
  The Institute for Justice's Bound by Oath has great coverage of this issue from a legal perspective. https://ij.org/ll/bound-by-oath-ll/ https://ij.org/ll/bound-by-oath-ll/
- Spooky23 1y ago
  Usually they claim they made a good faith error, go fuck off.
jmclnx 1y ago
Cannot get into the the article, but I can imagine what it says.
- Jtsummers 1y ago
  A family moved to their new home in Oklahoma. The father was still in Maryland. ICE agents broke into their home and dragged her and her daughters out of the house in their underwear in the early morning and made them dress outside in the rain. They also confiscated their property (phones, computers, cash) and didn't return it even though they were not the people they were looking for. They were looking for previous residents of the home. The agents also failed to provide any information on how to get their property and cash back.
  - jmclnx 1y ago
    Even worse then I could imagine. This country deserves what is coming to it.
  - blooalien 1y ago
    Sounds like "Armed Robbery" and "Home Invasion" to me (at a minimum).
superkuh 1y ago
>“I said, ‘when are we going to get our stuff back?’ They said it could be days or it could be months,” she said. In my experience when a federal agency raids you, steals your stuff, and later realizes they messed up and there was no crime, they'll keep your things for 10 years then give them back, broken, after the statute of limitations. Minus the valuables the FBI agents took for themselves over the years. She should not expect to ever receive anything back worth getting back.
- cactacea 1y ago
  I thought the same. She'll never see any of that stuff again.
- chneu 1y ago
  When they confiscate it they do it under the mentality that you're guilty and never getting it back. They throw that shit around. They break it before it leaves your property. If it makes it to evidence then it's chucked in a box.
davidw 1y ago
I wonder if we'll start to see "ICEing" along the lines of "swatting".
josefritzishere 1y ago
This is increasingly like something you'd read about the Gestapo in 1938.
miohtama 1y ago
In Supreme Court right now https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/justices-appear-sympathetic-to-victims-of-swat-raid-on-the-wrong-house/ https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/justices-appear-sympathet...
- explodes 1y ago
  Now a 404.
Uw5ssYPc 1y ago
It just shows how fucked U.S. has become.
vcryan 1y ago
I'm surprised more ICE agents don't get shot when they invade a home.

92 points by pmags 1y ago

altairprime 1y ago

Perhaps they should consider a civil suit against Palantir.

goku12 1y ago
They've crossed the line far enough that a comparison with the Gestapo is no longer necessary. Their infamy in the world history is assured.

pmags 1y ago

What are the limits of Federal liability when ICE, the FBI, or some other random federal agency mistakenly raids your home? This very question is currently before the Supreme Court for an FBI raid of a wrong house: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/supreme-court-fbi-raid.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/supreme-court...

ch4s3 1y ago
The Institute for Justice's Bound by Oath has great coverage of this issue from a legal perspective. https://ij.org/ll/bound-by-oath-ll/ https://ij.org/ll/bound-by-oath-ll/
Spooky23 1y ago
Usually they claim they made a good faith error, go fuck off.

jmclnx 1y ago

Cannot get into the the article, but I can imagine what it says.

Jtsummers 1y ago
A family moved to their new home in Oklahoma. The father was still in Maryland. ICE agents broke into their home and dragged her and her daughters out of the house in their underwear in the early morning and made them dress outside in the rain. They also confiscated their property (phones, computers, cash) and didn't return it even though they were not the people they were looking for. They were looking for previous residents of the home. The agents also failed to provide any information on how to get their property and cash back.
- jmclnx 1y ago
  Even worse then I could imagine. This country deserves what is coming to it.
- blooalien 1y ago
  Sounds like "Armed Robbery" and "Home Invasion" to me (at a minimum).

superkuh 1y ago

>“I said, ‘when are we going to get our stuff back?’ They said it could be days or it could be months,” she said. In my experience when a federal agency raids you, steals your stuff, and later realizes they messed up and there was no crime, they'll keep your things for 10 years then give them back, broken, after the statute of limitations. Minus the valuables the FBI agents took for themselves over the years. She should not expect to ever receive anything back worth getting back.

cactacea 1y ago
I thought the same. She'll never see any of that stuff again.
chneu 1y ago
When they confiscate it they do it under the mentality that you're guilty and never getting it back. They throw that shit around. They break it before it leaves your property. If it makes it to evidence then it's chucked in a box.

davidw 1y ago

I wonder if we'll start to see "ICEing" along the lines of "swatting".

josefritzishere 1y ago

This is increasingly like something you'd read about the Gestapo in 1938.

miohtama 1y ago

In Supreme Court right now https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/justices-appear-sympathetic-to-victims-of-swat-raid-on-the-wrong-house/ https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/justices-appear-sympathet...

explodes 1y ago
Now a 404.

Uw5ssYPc 1y ago

It just shows how fucked U.S. has become.

vcryan 1y ago

I'm surprised more ICE agents don't get shot when they invade a home.