5Chicago: ICE agents 'showed up' at Chicago school amid heightened concerns of raids

[Dennis Donovan]

5Chicago - ICE agents ‘showed up' at Chicago school amid heightened concerns of raids

Schools across the Chicago area have released guidance about potential situations after the Trump Administration revoked previous guidance prohibiting immigration arrests at schools, churches and hospitals

By NBC Chicago Staff and Vi Nguyen • Published 26 mins ago • Updated 19 mins ago

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were seen at a Chicago school Friday afternoon, hours after a Trump administration official confirmed that Illinois was among several states where hundreds of arrests had previously been made.

According to Chicago Public Schools' chief education officer, ICE agents were confirmed to have been present at Hamline School in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood, though the agents did not detain anyone and left the premises shortly after.

"Earlier today, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at Hamline Elementary School," Chief Education Officer Bogdana Chkoumbova said during a press conference at the school. "School staff followed CPS established protocols. They kept ICE agents outside of the school and contacted CPS law department and CPS Office of Safety and Security for further guidance. The ICE agents were not allowed into the school and were not permitted to speak to any students or staff members. Here is the bottom line, our students and staff are safe. Our protocols were followed."

Rapid Response Team members with the nonprofit group Increase the Peace also responded to the scene.

The school's principal said the school will not open its doors for ICE unnecessarily.

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[Solly Mack]

1. Terrifying children. That's just so brave.

Thugs. Nothing but thugs.

[HereForTheParty]

44. I'm surprised they didn't knock down the doors

nm

[Irish_Dem]

2. Kidnapping kids is the next step.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Yup, hold them as hostages until family members come forward, then deport only half the family. . . nt

[Irish_Dem]

22. Yes hold them as hostages, maybe even look for ransom to return the kids.

Nab the parents when they try to get their kids.

[wcmagumba]

3. Crazy times, Drump don't need no poor brown kids learning stuff...

He hates children, look at his own and their strange appearances. White is might to him...

[bdamomma]

37. The felon hates everyone

Damn him and swamp creatures.

Again he is making many enemies, and there will be a situation to shut this all down.

[Mike 03]

4. Is that an elementary school? Google seems to indicate it is

"Daddy, what did you do today?"

"Me and a bunch of other agents made a show of force at an elementary school, terrifying a bunch of kids just about your age."

[Initech]

5. What a total fucking piece of shit. Fuck ICE!

[Magoo48]

27. This is a good example situation for the rest of the nation.

Stonewall, protocol, and pushback on everything, everywhere, all the time.
Resist.

[Irish_Dem]

31. The school did the right thing.

[jmbar2]

6. We need to reach out to the ICE agents, appeal to their humanity.

If those kids get hurt, sick or abducted and disappeared, it will be a crime against humanity. Following orders will not be a good excuse.

I don't know how to do it, but the world needs to speak out to them. Just say no to crimes against children.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

16. if they gave a shit, they wouldn't have taken this job

[DBoon]

30. if they gave a shit, they would have found another job already

[wcmagumba]

36. Empathy for others is probably not on the qualification list for a new ICE terrozista....

[SheltieLover]

7. I wonder if police & nonprofit members confronted ICE goons?

Poor kids!

[sop]

8. I'm totally opposed to this sort of Trump thuggery, but why Chicago and not Dallas?

[mopinko]

10. it's not about immigrants, it's about terror.

[GoCubsGo]

12. Because Greg Abbott sent bus and plane loads of migrants to Chicago

over the past few years, so they know these people are there. The same goes for every other Northern "blue" city. They have a black mayor--to play into the racism, and they also have the largest population of Mexican-Americans outside of the western US--over 20% of the city's population.

[PortTack]

15. He hates Govenor Pritzker...a real billionaire that refuses to suck up

[Lonestarblue]

20. Red states okay, blue states to be attacked. Everything is now politicized, even medical resesrch.

[bdamomma]

38. Going into

predominate blue states????

[sop]

40. That's my suspicion.

[Arazi]

41. It's also Obama's hometown

Guessing he loves the thought of terrorizing folks there

[alcuno]

9. Welcome to Chicago!

Some of the toughest and most wonderful teachers that you will find. Don't mess with CPS!

[BruceWane]

11. Mission accomplished

DHS/ICE had no intention of actually entering the school and detaining/deporting anyone. I'm sure they knew they'd be turned away. They just wanted the headline in order to incite fear and spur self-deportations.

Plan to see more of these types of events.

[TalenaGor]

14. why do I feel like these kids will wind up in some Epstein Island type place

[Irish_Dem]

24. Like the last time.

[MontanaMama]

17. Disruption of school and terrorizing children

is the point of all this. Like our kids aren't terrorized enough in school. I can't with this.

[Irish_Dem]

25. Makes a nice change from getting shot to ribbons with military weapons.

[MontanaMama]

28. We are raising generations of kids

who are damaged by what we allow to happen to them. I am so angry.

[bdamomma]

39. Children

are going to have PTSD. In Tennessee, the GOP Senator is promoting to teach young children about Hitler.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/get-them-while-they-are-young-tennessee-gop-group-quotes-hitler-in-promoting-reading-list/ar-AA1xOQF5

[MontanaMama]

45. I know I cannot be exhausted yet...

Resistance and recovery requires all of us but I am having a hard time tonight. Your linked article takes my breath away.

[bdamomma]

50. ...........

we got to stay strong.

[Peregrine Took]

18. Homan said ICE was in Chicago today but when MSNBC contacted ICE they denied it. Said it wasn't them. n/t

[Codifer]

21. Thank you so much.

I thought I heard that there was some confusion as to the identity of these "Protectors of the Peace".... I feared the worst.... I was afraid that it was an attempted kidnapping of children by imposters.... you know how they love to cosplay.

But as I said, I thought that I heard this.... but I am 80 and I was stoned anyway.

[Irish_Dem]

26. Maybe they are the Trump goon squad, his civilian militia.

[jmbar2]

19. My contribution to the debate on X

Make the agents paranoid...

Link to tweet

[MontanaMama]

29. THIS.

Cops, Rethugs and churches should NEVER get their hands on kids. There are at least 1000 children separated from their parents who have never been reunited.

[NoMoreRepugs]

33. Miller is INSANE. People, many people are going to die because of him.

[orangecrush]

51. In a sane society

Miller would be tried for crimes against humanity.

[Irish_Dem]

23. Just showing up at the school is terrifying the parents and community.

[bluestarone]

32. Are we going from PUNKS shooting up our schools and killing our kids, to

ICE shooting our kids and teachers?

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

34. Trump's Nazi Brownshirts ICE goal is to terrorize little school children's

Sickening

Going to elementary schools to terrorize children.

This is what Trump’s racists administration is.

There is no other purpose than to frighten little children and their families


SCUM. Republicans are SCUM

[FormerOstrich]

35. Which of the kids

are murders and from the insane asylum. I bet the school they showed up at had a lot of kids that had "that look". Checking if they are a product of a birthright citizenship?

Damn illegals kids trying to get educated!!

[Arazi]

42. It's worse actually. It was Secret Service hassling an 11 yr old

For posting an anti-Trump video…they lied to the school and said they were ICE.

Secret Service Agents — Not ICE — Denied Entry At Chicago School Despite Initial Reports, CPS Source Says

CPS officials initially said agents who identified themselves as ICE arrived at Hamline Elementary School in Back of the Yards Friday, but it was actually Secret Service agents looking for an 11-year-old who posted an anti-Trump video, a CPS source said.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/24/ice-agents-denied-entry-at-cps-school-in-back-of-the-yards/

[wcmagumba]

43. Could be some litigation coming...kids have rights too.

T-rump's afraid of grade school kids...jerk of a human, if that even...

[MichMan]

53. Sort of...

CPS said that the two agents showed up at the school door and presented identification that included the name Department of Homeland Security, which oversees both ICE and the Secret Service. CPS said that 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.”

[Arazi]

54. Then they were deliberately ambiguous imo

The school reported ICE was there. That was the impression the Secret Service obviously wanted to provoke instead of clearly identifying themselves as Secret Service.

School office staff members are vigilant if you’ve ever had an opportunity to deal with them when it comes to the kids. They don’t know play and I’m sure the Secret Service guys were interrogated by staff. I use that word literally…

[Tickle]

46. Wait! It wasn't ice? Who was it NT

[Arazi]

49. Nope. Secret Service arrived and posed as ICE agents

To talk to an 11 yr old about their anti-Trump video

11 years old

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/24/ice-agents-denied-entry-at-cps-school-in-back-of-the-yards/

[MichMan]

52. According to the link, CPS made an assumption, not sure they "posed"

CPS said that the two agents showed up at the school door and presented identification that included the name Department of Homeland Security, which oversees both ICE and the Secret Service. CPS said that 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.”

[GP6971]

48. Did you forget Pants on Fire?