Family traumatized after armed ICE agents kick in door with mom and baby
Footage of ICE agents kicking down a door to a family has circulated online - and the mother has been left "shaking" ever since while she was holding her young baby
A family were left "shaken" after ICE agents pointed a gun at them as they forced entry into their Oregon home. The family, including a mother holding a three month old baby were in the home when the agents burst in, as seen in footage of the incident shared on Facebook.
The video shows ICE agents kick the bedroom door down in the apartment in Gresham, around 17 miles outside of Portland.
The baby's grandmother has now said her daughter is "shaking all the time" and is "so traumatized" as agents were heard shouting "Police, don’t move, hands up,” and appeared to point their weapons at the family after breaking down the door as the family sat in the room.
Magana, the mother, was consoling her baby who was heard crying in the video after the agents started shouting. “This is unfair they scared my baby,” Magana wrote in a Facebook post alongside the footage she recorded in the moment. “We are not criminals to be treated that way let alone point us with guns.”
She had started recording as she claimed they had been attempting to enter the property for hours, according to Latino news outlet Noticias Noroeste NW. An agent was heard asking the mother: "Why don't you put the phone down, we're in your house right now."
There were two male relatives of Magana, who were detained by the ICE agents in the confrontation, and the video also showed an agent grabbing one of them by the hair and pulling him backward out of the room. The two suspects have been taken to a detention center in nearby Tacoma, Washington.
A senior Department of Homeland Security official told The Independent that “no injuries were sustained” in the operation, which was targeting “a previously removed violent criminal illegal alien from Mexico” who remains at large.
“ICE officers attempted to pull this criminal illegal alien over in a vehicle stop. He attempted to evade arrest and rammed into a United States Postal Service vehicle before fleeing on foot into an apartment. After refusals to come out, law enforcement entered the apartment.
“The target escaped and remains at-large. Two other aliens from Mexico were found inside the apartment and taken into ICE custody at the scene.” However the family claimed the men who were detained are in the U.S. legally.
A GoFundMe appeal launched by Ashley Valdez, who said she was Magana's cousin, wrote that the agents "came in forcibly with guns pointing at them" and the mom "feared for her newborn baby."
"Her daughter was present and captured all on camera as she feared for her 3-month-old newborn baby on what would happen next," Valdez said.