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ICE Arrest at Chicago Daycare Draws Outcry and Disputed Accounts

The operation intensifies scrutiny of ICE tactics in locations long considered off-limits.

Overview

  • Video shows two men, one masked and wearing a vest marked “Police,” dragging a screaming woman from the Rayito de Sol entrance as parents and children look on.
  • The Department of Homeland Security says agents pursued a Colombian woman and a man who fled a targeted traffic stop into the daycare vestibule and arrested her there.
  • Daycare staff and local officials say agents entered without presenting arrest paperwork and identify the woman as a teacher with a work permit and a pending asylum case.
  • The facility closed temporarily after the incident, and parents, neighbors, and politicians held protests, with some demanding the woman’s release.
  • DHS describes the action as part of President Trump’s stepped-up enforcement in Chicago, citing more than 3,000 arrests since September and renewing debate over protections for “sensitive locations.”