Armed ICE agents in Chicago drag daycare worker out of facility and arrest her
ICE agents in Chicago forcibly arrested a daycare worker in front of children at the Rayito de Sol daycare center, with bystander videos showing agents dragging the woman out of the facility and appearing to slam her face against glass doors before pinning her against a car — prompting immediate condemnation from city and state lawmakers who called it "some of the most chilling video footage" they had ever seen. DHS denied targeting the daycare, claiming agents were conducting a traffic stop of an "illegal alien" whose vehicle fled into a shopping plaza, but witnesses said no warrant was presented and the worker was heard saying "I have papers" in Spanish as she was detained. The incident coincided with a Chicago court hearing in which witnesses testified about a broader pattern of excessive force by ICE agents during immigration raids across the city, including an agent aiming a gun at a youth organizer, rubber bullets and pepper balls being fired at journalists, and teargas being deployed at a children's Halloween parade. A federal judge has ordered the senior border patrol official overseeing Chicago's immigration operations to appear in court every weekday to report on ICE's activities, as a lawsuit accusing the agency of a "pattern of extreme brutality" and efforts to silence the press moves forward.