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Daycare Arrest in Chicago Fuels Outcry as Judge Tightens Limits on Federal Immigration Tactics

DHS identified the worker as Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano and portrays the episode as a traffic‑stop pursuit into the facility, a claim witnesses dispute.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detain a child care worker outside Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Learning Center in Chicago’s Roscoe Village neighborhood on Nov. 5, 2025. The arrest reportedly took place in front of children at the center.
Two parents embrace each other outside of the Rayito De Sol Spanish Immersion Daycare and Pre-School, where federal agents conducted an immigration raid that ended in a teacher being detained, in Chicago, Ill. on Nov. 5, 2025.
Law enforcement officers line up as protesters gather outside an ICE processing facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, Ill., Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Overview

  • Bystander video shows ICE agents pulling a Rayito de Sol employee from the North Center preschool during morning drop‑off, with the woman heard saying in Spanish, "I have papers."
  • DHS says agents tried a targeted traffic stop, the vehicle fled into the plaza, and the woman was arrested in a vestibule after she and the driver ran into the daycare; officials identified her as a Colombian national and said a work permit does not confer legal status.
  • Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, along with Reps. Mike Quigley and Delia Ramirez, condemned the operation and accused agents of entering without a warrant and traumatizing children and staff.
  • U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis extended restrictions on ICE and Border Patrol use of force in the Chicago area, questioned the government’s account in court, and DHS said it will appeal.
  • The episode comes during Operation Midway Blitz, which DHS says has produced more than 3,000 arrests since early September, as Aurora’s proposal to bar federal staging on city property failed to pass but was sent back to committee.