Standing on the corner of a road outside the Hamline Elementary on Monday afternoon, Gloria Markez noticed that there were unusually unusually numbers of parents for dismissal of the pavement.
He has 13 -year -old and 9 -year -old participation and is an American citizen, and Marx has a green card.
“Nevertheless, my youngest cried on the way to school this morning,” he said.
Fear of exile after President Donald Trump’s return to the office came to one head on Friday, when the people thought that the immigration agents attempted to enter the Hamline primary towards the south -west of Chicago, Informed about this. He was later identified as secret service agents.
The identity presented by the agents reads the “Homeland Security Department”, and the concern about the pending collective exile increased within the community, school leaders approached the central office of the district, under the guidance of the district, and in the school US immigration and customs enforcement agents reported, according to the spokesperson of Chicago Public Schools.
Agents visiting the school said that they left their business card, which identified the Chicago Field Office of Secret Service on her, the agency said, but a CPS spokesman said that Hamline employees did not see the business cards. Informed
In a hurry called Press Conference in the afternoon, the CPS Chief Education Officer confirmed that the Yards School had prevented the ICE officials from entering. Later, the school district said that “original communication was the result of a misunderstanding.”
Instead of ice, the agents who came to the school building were from the secret service, confirmed the secret service spokesperson Anthony Gugleemi. Both agencies are under the purview of Homeland Security.
There are many questions about what happened in the Hamline Elementary on Friday.
Guglelmi reported that the tribune agents were investigating a threat against a “protectory” in relation to Tikok. While the Secret Service will not divide the details of the investigation, it is not the agency policy to interview the adolescent girls without a guardian, the Guglalam said.
“We want to clarify that we investigate the dangers against government officials and high-level financial offenses,” Guglelmi said.
Marx said that he did not blame the CPS for incorrectly reporting that the ice agents came to the haemline on Friday as he knew that the school was trying his best to answer in the district. ” But she initially did not like the backlash CPS received to report incorrect information, she said. The details are still not clear for him.
“You know, it was a mistake,” he said. “Nevertheless, this is no meaning.” How many large -scale firing have been done in schools and no federal agents have gone? So what was going on? Markez asked.
The misunderstanding by Democratic leaders of the Chicago region was enhanced, which were early to condemn the ice at the end of the previous week when the news coverage reported the presence of federal agents at the haemline.
Gov. JB Pritzker took into “X”, earlier known as Twitter, on Friday, because the news report on the incident was developing, and without blame Allegations of sowing “,” First Report “The first report in Chicago raids in a primary school. ,
“Targeting children and separating families is cruel and United Nations-American,” Pitzkar posted, while adding one of a news stories about alleged snow activity.
US rape. Jesus “Chui” Garcia, who is a heavy Latin small village community in Chicago, made a statement on “X”, stating that schools should have a safe shelter for children and families. “From snow.” He doubled on his disdain for law enforcement activity in school the next day, not even after learning ice.
“Last night, Secret Service confirmed its agents, not snow, visited the Hamline School in Chicago. Despite the federal or government unit, harassing children and communities is unacceptable, ”Posted by Garcia. “I must be clear: schools should be safe for children, families and employees.”
On Monday, a Garcia spokesman said that Trump’s executive order “and threatening” caused “climate of concern” to people in Chicago and said it is unusual for secret service to show it in a school.
The spokesperson said, “It is important that the training that the school personnel kicked, and the way they reacted to react, reacts.”
Inside the haemline
Aredira Randan, vice president of immigrant justice for the revival project, said that his team was holding a meeting with the immigrant parents inside the hamline on Friday morning when the agents believed that the ice came to the school door.
The meeting was held to provide educational training to how to respond to ice encounters – to protect children and others in the school and community.
Neither Randan nor parents saw the agents, but they were immediately informed.
“Despite the fear, the school administration’s response revealed that we were ready, and they were able to act accordingly to keep the children and their employees safe,” Randan said.
The resurrection project works with 14 other schools behind the yard and Pilsen that serves the Latin population mainly under the organization’s basic patron program, recruiting and training parents to become an assistant to the classroom.
Randan’s team is working to confirm immigration enforcement activity, with a network of other organizations in the Chicago region, sharing false information or to prevent more fear.
Randan said, “What we (Friday) saw was not an increase in enforcement, it was a normal snow activity that always happened.” “So it’s good news, but it is important to continue to educate yourself.”
It was around 11:30 am on Friday when Gisella’s son-whose name is being stopped for secrecy-his eighth grade teacher said that his school was on lockdown.
“He was really scared,” Gissela said, whose last name is not being used due to fears of vengeance. “My son told me that he felt that it was a shooter who came inside the school.”
His other classmates were worried.
“I thought someone was trying to kill us,” Gissela’s son told him.
To which he replied, “Never say so.”
Neither Gisella, his son, nor his teacher knew what was going on. He said that Gisella has worked as a patron of a parents, assisting teachers in the school for about four years. Before Friday, it was a safe place for her and her two children. His 10 -year -old daughter also participates in the Hamline.
So when Gissela received an email from school that it was an ice agent who caused the lockdown, he started moving, he said.
The family from Guanazuato, Mexico, has lived in this area for nearly 20 years and has no ancestation to apply to fix their immigration status. At least not until his son becomes age, he said.
When his son came to know that it could be snow that caused a lockdown in his school, he immediately asked Gissela, “If I had not reached home from school one day, I will not do one day here?”
Gissela comforted him by telling him that he is strong and smart and he would know how to take care of himself and his younger sister.
‘Our teachers were talking about it’
The CPS spokesperson said in a statement, “Mental health resources are available in each CPS school, which are to help you feel worried or worried about changes in instructions from the new federal administration.”
According to district officials, the CPS crisis management unit was present in the haemline on Friday and Monday and will be in close communication with the school throughout the week. Officials said that the team will continue to be available for additional on-site support as long as it is required.
The district said in its statement on Monday that it is “committed to creating an environment where all students welcome, feel safe, and can focus on their education.”
On Monday afternoon, many parents told the tribune that their children were affected.
Mary, a mother of three from Ecuador, saw her 9 -year -old Aaron throwing an eraser on the pavement outside the haemline. He made Jack’s own game with plastic scrap collected on the ground.
Working as an assistant manager of a burger king and her husband in an auto factory, Mary said that she was not expected to target this way when she decided to come to America. ,
After staying in Chicago for a year and a half, Mary said that at this point her son can speak better English than him. He helped translate CPS news for his Friday to understand what really happened, he said.
“They are going to deport all those who have our skin color,” Aaron said on Friday.
“It has nothing to do with the color of your skin,” he asked her to calm her veins.
She did not know where Aaron heard that she could be targeted for her skin color, but she did not surprise her.
“Our teachers were talking about it,” Aaron said to his mother, stopping from his game of fictional jack.
“That brown and white children were separated in school years ago.”