MSNBC aired a false story about an attempted Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on a Chicago Elementary School. The school in question is 90% Hispanic and the fear was that children were being targeted for deportation by the Trump administration. Staff at the school had been trained on refusing entry of such agents. The agents did not enter the school and nobody was detained. However, ICE agents were not the ones who paid the school a visit.
Secret Service visited the school due to an alleged threat made by one of the students against President Donald Trump over the TikTok ban. They left school administrators business cards with their contact information. The mix-up appears to be with Federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security being confused with Immigration agents. This would have been easy to clear up with simple fact-checking and research that the mainstream media hung their hat on in previous years. None of that appears to have taken place.
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A Chicago elementary school turned away agents they feared were from ICE. They turned out to be from the Secret Service | CNN
Secret Service says they, not ICE, visited Chicago elementary school
Secret Service approached Hamline Elementary School in Back of the Yards, not Immigration and Customs Enforcement: CPD officials – ABC7 Chicago
Secret Service Agents — Not ICE — Denied Entry At Chicago School
ICE agents ‘showed up’ at Chicago school, CPS says – NBC Chicago
Reports of Immigration Agents at Chicago School Set Off Fear, but Are Proved False – The New York Times
