Chicago – November 06, 2025
Federal agents arrested a Chicago daycare worker just after the center opened Wednesday in a scene city officials said unfolded in front of teachers, parents and children.
City officials and parents told the media that the federal agents took a teacher from Rayito de Sol daycare, a Spanish immersion daycare and preschool located on Addison Street near Western Avenue, out of the building soon after it opened at 7 a.m.
“A member of our community was violently taken out of this daycare with children onsite, with fellow educators onsite,” said Ald. Matt Martin. “I’ve seen video, both video that was taken by parents who were waiting in line to drop their kids off, as well as video footage from inside the building. It’s some of the most chilling video footage I have seen certainly in my time in office.”
Martin said the educator was “followed inside by ICE” uninvited and “violently taken away.” The daycare confirmed to NBC Chicago the woman was a teacher at their facility.
“We had agents with guns who were walking around the facility with teachers inside, with children inside,” he said. “We are of course demanding she be released immediately.”
Numerous videos were posted to social media showing the incident shortly after it happened. In at least one video the woman can be heard telling authorities in Spanish she had papers.
Video from a parent taken moments after the arrest and obtained showed officers wearing gear identifying them as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents speaking to someone in a vehicle as onlookers appear to cry nearby, one holding a child.
