ICE bungles Utah raid
"They pounded on my door so hard that my walls shook," said Dana Ayala, a Filipino native and U.S. citizen who has lived in the Wood River Valley for 13 years. "My 19-year-old son opened the door to see what was the matter and six agents pushed their way into my home.
"They never informed us who they were, they just barged into our house. They never showed us a warrant."
Ayala said the agents later told her that they were looking for a "sexual predator" by the name of Luis Gonzales, someone she had never heard of and had never lived in her home.
"I have two teenage daughters," she said. "I'm not going to let a pedophile stay here."
Ayala said her children are U.S. citizens and her husband is a Mexican native who has legal residency in the United States.
She said the agents searched the home and questioned the occupants for about half an hour, were rude and abrupt and have left her family traumatized, especially her 18-year-old daughter who is mentally retarded."
TERRY SMITH in the Idaho Mountain Express.