‘I have papers’: Child care worker detained by ICE officers inside a Chicago day care
As parents dropped their children inside a Spanish immersion day care in Chicago Wednesday morning, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers stormed the building to detain a child care worker, a scene that before this year would have been unheard of in the United States.
Child care centers were previously protected under a “sensitive locations” directive that advised ICE to not conduct enforcement in places like schools and day cares. But President Donald Trump removed that protection on his first day in office. Arrests near centers have increased across the country, but rarely have reports surfaced of an arrest inside a facility in front of children.
Video capturing a portion of the arrest shows two ICE agents aggressively detaining the worker inside Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Learning Center on Chicago’s North Side at about 7 a.m. The agents pull her outside the center and push her against a gray sedan while she shouts. Then one of the agents heads back inside.
“I have papers,” she tells them in Spanish.
According to local news reports, an SUV of federal agents followed the teacher’s car to the day car and ran inside the building after her. CBS News Chicago confirmed with the director of the center that the worker detained was a teacher. [Continue reading…]