Neighbors React To Weekend Immigration Raid
Mon Aug 27, 7:07 PM ET



A woman who lives in a neighborhood raided on Sunday by immigration officials talked with Eyewitness News 5 on Monday.

An ongoing investigation between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and local law enforcement netted several arrests on Sunday, officials said.

There is no word as to the nature of the investigation; however, officers were spotted taking people from homes near Northwest 10th Street and Portland Avenue on Sunday.

The woman said she does not know why ICE agents raided her home, but she acknowledged that they were looking for somebody specific. She told Eyewitness News 5's Mark Opgrande that agents wouldn't tell her much.

She said they asked her questions about who lives there. The woman said she has a son in Chicago but said that he told her he hadn't broken the law.

Immigration agents detained one man from her house.

Some neighbors said the raids make them concerned for their safety. Loraine Edwards said she usually knows just about everything that happens in her part of northwest Oklahoma City.

"I would like to know at all times what is going on in my neighborhood," she said.

Selena Eubanks said she is not used to seeing so many police cars in her neighborhood during the day.

"We left the house to go out for breakfast, and the police were everywhere this morning. We were afraid there had been an accident or even a fire or something, but it seemed almost for no reason," she said.

A spokesman with ICE said the arrests started on Saturday and that there would be more to come. However, neighbors said they deserve to know what's going on.

"I think they should tell neighbors what's going on," Edwards said.

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