US Secret Service approached South Side school, not ICE agents, CPS officials say
abc7chicago.com
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.

“CPS will continue to protect our students and their families in alignment with the Illinois TRUST Act and Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance,” one school official said.

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates called the situation “unprecedented” at a news conference Friday afternoon.

    • foggy@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, but this is surely also to intimidate folks from sending the to public schools.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        Oh 100% - that’s why clearly rejecting it is so important. If the folks at your local school clearly announce “we don’t fuck with Trump’s terrorism bullshit” then it makes it less likely that parents (even those with residency or citizenship) will be afraid to let their kids attend.

        I think the whole announcement that the admin will raid schools is a pretty transparent attempt to make non-white people voluntarily stop sending their kids to school.

  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    The headline has been updated:

    US Secret Service approached South Side school, not ICE agents: officials

    The U.S. Secret Service told the I-Team they approached a South Side school Friday. Chicago Public Schools officials had initially said the agent or agents were from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

    Secret Service said they were investigating a threat, and responded to a house. They said they were then told the person they wanted to talk to was at Hamline Elementary School, but they did not enter the school, the Secret Service told the I-Team.

    The threat the Secret Service was investigating was not immediately clear.

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      What kind of threat would the Secret Service be investigating at a random house in Chicago? Like, maybe if someone sent out a death threat to an elected official, but even then isn’t that the FBI or local cops jobs?

      Also, a public school turning away the secret service when they say they’re investigating a threat just seems incredibly unlikely.

      Also also, how in the world would the school have mistaken secret service agents for ICE agents? Did these agents not identify themselves?

      I think the answer to all of these questions is going to be “the Secret Service is lying their ass off because everyone in the executive branch knows Trump will throw a giant hissy for if he hears that his big mean ICE agents got scared of by a bunch of public school teachers,” but I guess we’ll see what happens.