Fox News Digital on Saturday spoke with outraged protesters in Chicago, Illinois about the Trump administration’s mass deportation plan, calling it an "instrument of terror."
Many questions remain about what happened at Hamline Elementary when Chicago Public Schools mistook Secret Service agents for immigration enforcement.
Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker face criticism for falsely claiming ICE agents attempted to conduct a raid at an elementary school.
Some moms and families of CPS students who lost their lives to gun violence are still waiting for arrests to be made. Others know suspects are in custody — but it does not make grieving any easier.
Chicago officials admitted they confused Secret Service agents who showed up at an elementary school to investigate a threat for ICE agents.
A recent move by Trump allows immigration authorities to conduct raids at schools. Multiple school districts have pledged to complicate the efforts.
The new school accountability dashboards replace the district’s controversial number ratings for schools, which CPS had put on hold.
The immigration blitz was action long promised by President Donald Trump who made mass deportation central to his campaign.
The district is growing a pilot program in which some campuses serve as centralized pickup and dropoff locations.
The move to e-learning for some schools in the Chicago area comes after more than 100 schools across the city and the suburbs either closed or moved to online learning due to extreme cold, with wind chills as low as -30.
Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez said it was all a "misunderstanding" after U.S. Secret Service agents showed up at Hamline Elementary School and were mistaken as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
More than a dozen Chicago-area schools have already announced closures or switches to e-learning for Tuesday as a cold weather advisory for much of Northeastern Illinois and Northwest Indiana continues to grip the region.