Posted on 11/05/2025 3:40:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The incident appears to be one of the first during Trump’s second administration in which immigration officers entered school grounds.
Immigration officers arrested a teacher early Wednesday in Chicago after chasing her into the grounds of a private preschool and grabbing her as parents and students looked on, according to a local official, witnesses and video footage of the incident.
Several parents said they were waiting to drop off their children around 7 a.m. at Rayito de Sol, a Spanish immersion day care and school, when they saw armed officers in black vests with the words “POLICE ICE” run behind the woman and into the lobby of the building. Witnesses and school employees told The Washington Post that they thought the school was under attack and scrambled into rooms and vehicles outside in search of safety.
The agents dragged the woman outside as she yelled, “Tengo papeles!” or “I have papers.”
The arrest appears to be one of the first instances during Trump’s second administration in which immigration officers entered school grounds to make an arrest. During the Biden and Obama administrations, schools were considered “sensitive locations,” and agents were barred from entering with few exceptions. But the Trump administration eliminated those policies in January, allowing agents to make arrests at schools, hospitals and churches. There have been few such arrests, and the Department of Homeland Security has said it does not plan to raid or target schools.
DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin disputed that the woman was arrested inside the school, saying she was detained in “a vestibule.” The outer doors to the school are open to the public, but to enter through a second set of double doors, staff must buzz in parents and faculty after verifying their identity. Bystander video of the arrest shows agents in both the...
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Send her packing.
The students got a first hand lesson in Civics. Well done.
Corrected headline: Criminal Alien Uses Preschool Children Human Shields
This was a hostage situation.
The ICE officers were Armed, Hernandez? OH MY!
OMG THE HORROR !!!!!!!! /s
They shouldn’t be but it seems that schools are safe havens for all kinds of criminals.
Since when do we have specific schools for Spanish immersion?
DHS said they were pursuing her and she ran inside. They posted on X.
“I have papers” is definitely taught to these lowlifes to scream, so ICE sounds like nazis. Won’t work.
DHS responded to WaPo on X as follows:
Homeland Security
@DHSgov
“How do you people sleep at night after lying all day to the American people like this?
ICE law enforcement did NOT target a daycare and were only at this location because the female illegal alien fled inside.
Here is the real story:
Officers attempted to conduct a targeted traffic stop of this female illegal alien from Colombia.
Officers attempted to pull over this vehicle, which was registered to a female illegal alien, with sirens and emergency lights, but the male driver refused to pull the vehicle over.
Law enforcement pursued the vehicle before the assailant sped into a shopping plaza where he and the female passenger fled the vehicle. They ran into a daycare and attempted to barricade themselves inside the daycare—recklessly endangering the children inside.
The illegal alien female was arrested inside a vestibule, not in the school. Upon arrest, she lied about her identity.
The vehicle is registered to in her name, though she claims that she didn’t know the man who was driving her car and just picked him up from a bus stop.
Facts including criminality and information on the male assailant are forthcoming and we will update the public with more information as soon as it becomes available.”
Immigration officers arrested a teacher early Wednesday in Chicago after chasing her into the grounds of a private preschool and grabbing her as parents and students looked on, according to a local official, witnesses and video footage of the incident.
It is actually a PRIVATE preschool...
What would happen if the cops were chasing a bank robber who ran into the school?
Would they have to wait to get permission to go in after him/her/it?
A teachable moment.
ICE officers are allowed to chase criminals.
She knew why Secret Service was chasing her. A more responsible adult would not have led this wild scene into a school building during the middle of the day. They would have spared the children having to witness such drama when they did not have to see all of it.
Get out of my country!
I don’t care if they have to barge inside a school or church or whatever, illegal is illegal
SINCE BIDEN & OBAMA OPENED UP THE DOORS WIDE
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