Arrest by federal immigration agents at Chicago day care sparks outrage
DHS said it had undertaken a "targeted traffic stop" of an undocumented woman.
A teacher at a Chicago day care center was violently dragged out and then arrested by federal immigration officers, several local, state and federal officials said at a press conference.
Rep. Mike Quigley, D.-Ill., said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents followed a teacher into the facility on Wednesday morning without a warrant and "abducted her in front of her students."
In a video showing the arrest at Rayito de Sol's Spanish-language immersion day care, a woman can be heard telling agents in Spanish that she has "papers."
Quigley later told reporters the detained teacher had a work permit.
"No parent should ever have to explain to their child while why their teacher was dragged away by armed officers, and no teacher should fear that showing up to work to care for and educate kids could result in their arrest," he said.
The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday named the detained woman as Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, saying she was Colombian. DHS said in a press release that her work authorization "does NOT confer any type of legal status to be in the U.S."
The action by federal immigration agents on Wednesday coincided with a hearing in which a federal judge heard arguments about the use of force by immigration agents in the Chicago area.
Following that hearing, U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis extended restrictions she had previously placed on federal immigration agents' use of force during immigration arrests and protests in the Chicago area.
During the hearing on Thursday, Judge Ellis largely sided with attorneys representing journalists and demonstrators who say they've been harmed by ICE/CBP personnel during lawful protests.
"I don't find defendant's version of events credible," Judge Ellis said, adding that the CBP and ICE's conduct "shows no sign of stopping."
"It is difficult to see how an injunction requiring the government to follow the Constitution could possibly be harmful," she said.
In response to the judge's ruling, DHS said in a statement: "This injunction is an extreme act by an activist judge that risks the lives and livelihoods of law enforcement officers. Rioters, gangbangers, and terrorists have opened fire on our federal law enforcement officers, thrown rocks, bottles, and fireworks at them, slashed the tires of their vehicles, rammed them, ambushed them, and they have destroyed multiple law enforcement vehicles. Despite these real dangers, our law enforcement shows incredible restraint in exhausting all options before force is escalated. DHS law enforcement will continue to enforce the laws of our nation, just as they do every day across the country. We shall appeal."
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