When two men giving a federal badge appeared at the entrance of Chicago Public School on Friday morning, school employees did what they were trained.
Believing that the man was a US immigrant and customs execution agent, the employees refused to enter them. John H. Hamline Elementary School has registered a child from kindergarten to 8th grade in most of the southwest side of the city.
The school immediately notified the officials of Chicago Public School and immediately issued a statement.
“The ice agent was not allowed to enter school and was not allowed to talk to students or staff,” said a statement.
But the school was wrong. The agent actually came from a secret service instead of ice. A few hours later, a secret service spokesman said, in which the agency was investigating the threat to someone assigned to protect, in connection with the ban on Tactoku.
Spokesman Anthony Grielmi refused to name the intimidated person. The agent went to a nearby house and tried to talk to a minor, then failed and tried school.
However, the correction was too late, and the panic and fear that had already been set around Chicago over the rumored immigration attacks. For a week, many inhabitants were striving for the Trump administration's pledge, which forced fraudulent immigrants.
“This seemed to be a big misunderstanding,” Grielmi said in an interview.
Glielmi said that agent identifies himself as a secret service, and the badge has engraved the word “Ministry of Land Security”.
“I just want to clarify it. Secret services never investigate immigration issues,” he said. He stated that the institution had a consistent presence in Chicago. Former President Barak Obama still owns his house.
ICE spokeswoman said that there was no immigration execution measure near school or nearby.
Some school systems in the state, such as New York, California, New Jersey, and Illinois, contacted their parents on Friday, trying to reassure that the federal agents were not allowed on the school premises without a judicial warrant.
In Chicago, as in other jurisdictions, as well as other jurisdictions that restrict how local officials can cooperate with the federal efforts of unrecognized immigrants, schools are parents in their children's immigration. I will not ask.
Outside the John H. Hamline Elementary School behind the yard, several parents arrived and pulled their children early. GOV. JB PRITZKER also sounds a “attack” in elementary schools, sounding in social media.
“The community gathered within an hour of what was going on,” said the community organizer Belt Aguyo, who rushed to school after hearing that the ice agent was there.
Aguayo distributed a leaflet in English and Spanish, which advises people about their rights that immigrants have been doing for a week.
“We want to be sure that parents can send children to school,” he said.
Danagoldstein Contributed report.