Another Hoax Blows Up! Democrat Gov Pritzker, Fake News Media Falsely Claim ICE Agents Raided Chicago Elementary School – Here’s What Really Happened

THE GATEWAY PUNDIT | Published January 26, 2025

Another day, another hoax.

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) falsely claimed that ICE agents visited a South Side school on Friday to smear the Trump Administration as it carried out immigration raids in Chicago this week.

It wasn’t ICE. Secret Service agents were investigating a threat at the school.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D) spread the lie that ICE agents raided an elementary school in Chicago on Friday.

“After a week of Republicans sowing fear and chaos, the first reports of raids in Chicago are at an elementary school,” Pritzker said.

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“Targeting children and separating families is cruel and un-American,” he said.

 

The Chicago Tribune spread the hoax as well.

Of course, this was a lie.

Pritzker, Chicago Public Schools and the fake news media knew ICE agents never raided a Chicago elementary school but they still haven’t deleted their tweets.

Secret Service was investigating a threat and responded to a house.

 

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SOURCE: www.thegatewaypundit.com

RELATED: Secret Service, Not ICE Agents Turned Away From Back of the Yards Elementary School

WTTW NEWS | Published January 26, 2025

U.S. Secret Service agents, not immigration agents, attempted to conduct an enforcement action at Hamline Elementary School in Back of the Yards, officials said late Friday.

Chicago Public Schools officials initially said in a statement that the agents were part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A statement from the Secret Service said they were investigating a threat against an official they are charged with protecting.

“Agents identified themselves to the school principal and provided business cards with their contact information,” a Secret Service spokesman said in a statement. “The agents left without incident. The Secret Service investigates all threats made against those we protect, we do not investigate nor enforce immigration laws.”

Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20th Ward) also told WTTW News the agents who attempted to enter Hamline Elementary School at 4747 S. Bishop St., southwest of the Loop, were from ICE.

CPS officials said school officials “kept the 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.  Teaching and learning continued throughout the day at Hamline.”

That was false, a spokesperson said late Friday.

“Our original communication was a result of a misunderstanding, reflective of the fear and concerns in the community amid the new administration’s focus on undocumented immigrants,” the statement said. “Here’s what happened: 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.”

“While people across the city are worried about heightened immigration enforcement, it is imperative that individuals not spread unverified information that sparks fear across the city,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said late Friday, without acknowledging that high-ranking city officials were responsible for making the false statements.

Even the governor reacted to the false information.

“Targeting children and separating families is cruel and un-American,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said in a statement, issued before the Secret Service said their agents had been at the school.

President Donald Trump has promised to carry out the largest deportation operation in American history. Federal officials on Tuesday lifted restrictions on two key federal immigration agencies — Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection — that prevented agents from carrying out deportation efforts at sensitive locations, including churches, schools, hospitals, shelters and community centers.

Johnson has repeatedly said he will not allow Chicago police officers to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deport undocumented Chicagoans and called for Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

CPS policy prohibits federal immigration agents from “entering CPS school grounds, unless they provide to CPS administration their credentials, the reason they are requesting access, and a criminal judicial warrant signed by a federal judge,” according to CPS records. “CPS shall not admit ICE agents based upon an administrative warrant, an ICE detainer, or other document issued by an agency enforcing civil immigration law.”

 

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SOURCE: www.wttwnews.com

 

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