The operation began at a home and later extended to the school grounds.The agency stressed that it only investigates threats, does not enforce immigration laws.
Among President Trump’s many immigration policies implemented since he took office, his plan for mass deportations has rattled migrant communities in Colorado and beyond.
The U.S. Secret Service told the I-Team they approached a South Side school Friday. Chicago Public Schools officials had initially said the agents were from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
CHICAGO -- The U.S. Secret Service said its agents visited a Chicago elementary school Friday while investigating a threat, hours after school officials mistakenly claimed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had come to the building.
Chicago Public Schools officials incorrectly said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents attempted to enter a South Side elementary school.
Fearing federal agents asking to search a Chicago elementary school Friday morning were from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, school officials denied them entry. But it turned out they were US Secret Service agents pursuing an investigation.
The agents turned out to be unrelated to immigration, officials said hours later. They were from the Secret Service, investigating a threat.
Despite earlier reports that ICE agents tried to enter a Chicago elementary school Friday, the agency says it wasn't them. So what exactly happened?
At least eight large public school districts across the United States have vowed in recent days to try to protect undocumented immigrant students and their families from President Donald Trump's mass deportation push.
There has been no communication between ICE and the Genesee County Sheriff's Office regarding immigration enforcement, Sheriff Chris Swanson said.
27 (UPI) --Nearly 1,000 people were arrested by federal agencies in a blitz to enforce immigrations policies across the United States ... to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Border czar Tom Homan told NBC News that several people with criminal convictions were apprehended in Chicago.