Child care worker detained by ICE officers inside a Chicago day care

“I have papers,” a child care worker shouted in Spanish at Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during an arrest Wednesday morning at a Spanish immersion day care in Chicago.

Video capturing a portion of the arrest — which reportedly took place in front of children — shows two ICE agents aggressively detaining the worker inside Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Learning Center on Chicago’s North Side at about 7 a.m. The agents pull her outside the center and push her against a gray sedan while she shouts. Then one of the agents heads back inside.

According to local news reports, an SUV of federal agents followed the teacher’s car to the day car and ran inside the building after her.

CBS News Chicago confirmed with the director of the center that the worker detained was a pre-K teacher.

It’s unclear whether ICE had a warrant, which is required for agents to enter a day care.

In recent weeks, ICE enforcement in Chicago has ramped up, with multiple violent arrests taking place across the city, as well as clashes between protesters and agents.

Nationwide, 1 in 5 child care workers are immigrants, most of them Latinas. In Chicago, it’s 1 in 4. Increased ICE enforcement has created significant fear for workers, some of whom have stopped showing up to work for fear of getting caught in a raid.

As of this year, child care centers are also no longer off limits for ICE raids. The centers were previously protected under a “sensitive locations” directive that advised ICE to not conduct enforcement in places like schools and day cares. But President Donald Trump removed that protection on his first day in office.

Reports of raids near day cares have been rare — especially inside a center — but increasing in frequency in recent months.

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