ICE agents attempted entry into Chicago elementary school but were not allowed inside, Chicago Public Schools officials say
01/24/2025 - A Chicago elementary school turned away agents they feared were from ICE. They turned out to be from the Secret Service (Title Edited after Article Update. Maybe less uplifting now.)
notably, Chicago Teachers Union have an agreement with Chicago Public Schools that states, among other things, "ICE agents are not permitted to enter CPS school grounds or to obtain or review CPS records, unless they provide to CPS administration their credentials, the reason they are requesting access, and a criminal judicial warrant signed by a federal judge. CPS shall not admit ICE agents based upon an administrative warrant, ICE detainer, or other document issued by an agency enforcing civil immigration law." -- that is likely most of the reason this was rebuffed, and even more of a reason to organize a union or lobby your current union to bargain for sanctuary protections like this. they won't stop a fully uncaring ICE, but they will make it much harder to do raids and give people more recourse against them
Turns out it wasn't ICE. It was Secret Service agents trying to find an 11-year-old that posted an anti-Trump video. Source
This is fascism, folx.
JFC it hasn't even been a week and shit is going down. They knew what they were doing would not be allowed to happen, so they pretended to be ICE. In what world is that better?
"After our District officials shared public statements, we learned that the agents who visited the school were from the U.S. Secret Service," the spokesperson said. "Two individuals showed up at the school door and presented identification that includes the name Department of Homeland Security, the federal agency that oversees ICE. School officials proceeded to respond to the agents with the understanding that they were from ICE, amid rumors and reports that the agency was in the community."
It appears that the school officials assumed they were ICE. Everything else is awful about this but I'd ask that we be mad about the correct things. This does not appear to be a situation where the Secret Service attempted to mislead anybody. They didn't identify which department of HS they were with, just that they were with HS.
The fact that the Secret Service showed up to a school to go after a teenager for paying a video is terrible, though.
What the fuck is ice even doing at an elementary school??
to cause fear and panic. because diaper and his comrades are terrorists.
When reached by CNN for comment, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials denied their agents were involved.
“This was not a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement encounter,” a spokesperson for the agency said in a statement to CNN Friday afternoon.
I mean someone had to have gotten some smartphone video footage of these jokers in their ICE merch standing around outside the school with their dicks in their hands, right?