A pregnant Florida mother says federal immigration agents arrested her partner and two other family members after arriving at her home while she was inside with her young children. She also claims the agents cut off the home’s electricity and broke a window during the encounter, leaving her worried about how she would secure the house after they left.
The video begins inside the home, where a woman can be heard sobbing as she records the encounter from near the front door. Two boys who appear to be teenagers stand outside with their father, who is in handcuffs, while several ICE agents can be seen nearby. The father tells the agents, “he is coming with me,” apparently referring to one of the boys who remains outside while the other goes back inside and closes the door.
The footage then cuts to an ICE vehicle, where an agent can be heard asking, “Nobody back there?” The woman continues recording and pans the camera toward several broken windows. The video later shows ICE vehicles leaving the area with the handcuffed father and the teenage boy.
The footage was originally shared on Instagram by @stopicenet. According to the account’s caption, the woman claimed the agents did not have a warrant, cut off the electricity, and broke a front window before taking three people. The video itself does not establish what paperwork, if any, the agents had.
She also said the electricity came back on after her partner and the other two people surrendered. As per the Instagram account, the woman said, “I want to share my experience so that anyone who has to go through with ICE, please start to record everything because you never know what can happen during the situation with ICE.”
The woman’s claim that agents arrived without a warrant is especially notable given the ongoing debate over ICE home entries. Earlier this year, a controversial ICE policy allowed officers to enter certain homes using administrative removal warrants rather than warrants signed by judges. By April, however, ICE officers were reportedly told to stop entering homes without judicial warrants, although officials said formal written guidance had not yet been distributed.
There is an important distinction between the two. An ICE administrative warrant can authorize an immigration arrest, but it generally does not provide the same authority as a judge-signed warrant to enter a private home without consent. The video does not show whether agents entered the Florida home or what type of paperwork they may have had.
Internet Reacts to Florida Immigration Arrest
The footage later spread on X, where users disagreed over the tactics shown and described by the woman.
“Cutting power to a home with kids is extreme. What exigent circumstance justified the warrantless entry?” one commenter asked, although the available footage does not establish whether agents actually entered the home or what type of warrant they may have had.
Others defended immigration enforcement and argued that families can face difficult consequences when relatives become targets of federal immigration authorities.
The sharply different reactions reflected a larger argument over immigration enforcement, but they did little to answer the central questions surrounding this particular encounter.
Important questions about what happened at the Florida home remain unanswered. The available footage does not establish what type of warrant or other paperwork agents had, whether they entered the residence, or the immigration status of the three people taken away.
Federal immigration authorities have not publicly addressed this specific encounter, leaving the woman’s account and the footage she recorded as the primary sources for what happened that day.
