Overview
- Local WGN-TV footage shows two men, one masked, dragging a screaming caregiver from the north-side facility as children and parents panicked.
- DHS said ICE agents followed a Colombian woman and a man who fled a targeted traffic stop into the daycare entrance and asserted that their actions endangered children.
- Daycare staff reported agents showed no arrest paperwork in the private business, and the center will remain closed until Monday.
- Officials described the detainee as a Colombian national who entered the U.S. in June 2023, received a work permit, and has teenage children who recently crossed the border and are now in a government shelter in Chicago.
- City and state leaders condemned the operation as inappropriate in a location with children present, linking it to a Chicago enforcement campaign that DHS says has produced more than 3,000 arrests.