The federal government is investigating an illegal human smuggling operation with connections in the metro. ICE agents located a home in Northwest Oklahoma City owned by the leader of the operation, conducting a raid on the home last week looking for eight undocumented people.

The Department of Homeland Security posted a statement about the story on X, the social media platform formally known as Twitter, on Thursday

We’re citizens," the woman said she repeatedly told the armed men after they broke into her family's home last week.