Overview
- Multiple videos show agents in vests marked POLICE ICE dragging a screaming woman from inside Rayito de Sol on Chicago’s North Side as parents and children looked on.
- DHS says agents attempted a targeted traffic stop, pursued a vehicle into the shopping plaza, and arrested the woman at the entry area after she fled into the facility.
- Local officials and witnesses say agents entered without a warrant, moved through areas of the daycare, and detained the worker as children and staff were present.
- The woman can be heard saying in Spanish, “I have papers,” with some officials asserting she has a work permit, a point DHS disputes while describing her as a Colombian national in the country illegally.
- The Roscoe Village site closed for the day, parents and lawmakers demanded accountability and her release, and the incident intensified scrutiny of Operation Midway Blitz, which DHS says has yielded more than 3,000 arrests.