DHS Secretary Kristi Noem joins ICE raid in L.A. County neighborhood

Terror from a mother of four in Huntington Park when federal agents swarmed her home. As KCAL's Jio Insinara reports tonight, Kristi Noem was standing by watching it all unfold. According to that mother, things started even before the early morning hours. Take a look at the neighborhood as described to us. Very quiet, very calm compared to when things first started earlier in the day. Now this mom says a van pulled up the night before and was recording her from the street. They didn't respond to her questions from her home, but just hours later, that's when the entire neighborhood was on alert. It was an early morning shock outside Sabrina Medina's front door. Video captured by Medina and neighbors shows a large number of ICE agents accompanied by the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem. They kept on telling me, like, where is your husband? And I said, he's not here. They were like, where is he at? And I was like, stop hiding him, like, I'm not hiding him, like, he's not here. The agents, dressed in military-style gear, were demanding to know where her husband was, claiming he was in the country illegally and had a criminal record from years ago. Medina says he was arrested eight years ago for a crime, but the charges were later dropped. He just wants to be a father to my kids, like, he's not a criminal, he's not a gangbanger, you know, he has no tattoos but my name and my daughter's name, you know, nothing else. Medina is a mom of four and currently four months pregnant. She says she cooperated with the federal agents, but most of the officers kept their weapons drawn despite her children being around. While agents did show her a piece of paper they claimed was a search warrant, she says they were already inside the home by the time she could fully read it. I just wanted my kids out the house because their guns right there, you know? Meanwhile, the presence of Secretary Noem and others is something Medina and neighbors call unsettling and frightening. Y'all think it's so funny to come over here to people's house and do raids just because they don't got papers. They were laughing. They wanted to see a show and, you know, that makes me feel very humiliated, you know? They're recording my kids. That's weird. I'm angry, scared, worried for the family, scared for my own safety. They're targeting Hispanic communities, so now I'm scared to even go out, even if I'm a U.S. citizen. Medina says she's now living in fear, no longer feeling safe in her own home. ICE agents told her they'd be back until they find her husband, but she says this incident isn't just about her family, it's part of a larger pattern she's seen unfold across her community in recent weeks, a concern that's now incredibly heightened. It's a nightmare. It's really a nightmare, seeing everybody's family, not just because of my husband. I've seen my friends, I've seen relatives, the people in Home Depot getting chased, you know? It just hurts me. Giving you another look at the neighborhood here, Medina says she's considering leaving the country entirely if her husband is taken, fearing she won't be able to support her family on her own. Neighbors we talked to also uncertain about what's going to happen next, but they say that no matter what happens, they are going to stand side-by-side, supporting each other. In the meantime, we reached out to Homeland Security for comment about what happened today, but we have yet to hear back. Reporting from Huntington Park, I'm Gio Ancignara, SK Cal News.