Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said Wednesday that an Illinois lawmaker lied when he accused agents of targeting a preschool teacher and entering a daycare center to arrest her.
Rep. Mike Quigley (D) posted on X that the agents "abducted a preschool teacher without a warrant — in front of children."
But the Department of Homeland Security quickly called Quigley out and said that the situation was quite different than how Quigley and other officials portrayed it.
Congressman, you are deliberately misrepresenting the facts.
ICE law enforcement did NOT target a daycare and were only at this location because the female illegal alien fled inside.
Here is the real story:
Officers attempted to conduct a targeted traffic stop of this female… https://t.co/a5BdcbhnwC
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) November 5, 2025
"Congressman, you are deliberately misrepresenting the facts," the agency rebutted. "ICE law enforcement did NOT target a daycare and were only at this location because the female illegal alien fled inside."
The real story, DHS posted, was that agents tried to pull over a car containing a female illegal immigrant from Colombia, but the male driver would not stop.
After a chase, he drove the car into a shopping center and both the male and female fled into the daycare center, barricading themselves in the vestibule.
She was arrested in the vestibule, not inside the daycare center, DHS said. It was the Colombian immigrant who put the children and adults inside the daycare at risk, not the ICE agents.
But of course, the narrative put forth by Quigley dovetails exactly with what they want to believe about ICE's activities: that ICE agents are targeting innocent people and putting people at risk with their brutal and violent raids.
It seems like rumors abounded when passersby or shoppers saw the raid happen, and Quigley was quite content to spread the disinformation without bothering to verify any facts.
ICE further said that the woman who was arrested lied about her identity and claimed not to know the man driving her car during the traffic stop and chase.
According to her, she picked up a perfect stranger at the bus stop and let him drive her car. This scenario is highly unlikely, of course.
But the left is so desperate to make ICE the bad guys that the truth really doesn't matter at all.
This kind of hateful misinformation is going to get ICE agents killed, but that will only make partisans like Quigley even happier, I'm afraid.
