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.”