Another Hoax Blows Up! Democrat Gov Pritzker, Fake News Media Falsely Claim ICE Agents Raided Chicago Elementary School – Here’s What Really Happened

by Cristina Laila Jan. 25, 2025 4:40 pm



Another day, another hoax.

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) falsely claimed that ICE agents visited a South Side school on Friday to smear the Trump Administration as it carried out immigration raids in Chicago this week.

It wasn’t ICE. Secret Service agents were investigating a threat at the school.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D) spread the lie that ICE agents raided an elementary school in Chicago on Friday.

“After a week of Republicans sowing fear and chaos, the first reports of raids in Chicago are at an elementary school,” Pritzker said.

“Targeting children and separating families is cruel and un-American,” he said.



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After a week of Republicans sowing fear and chaos, the first reports of raids in Chicago are at an elementary school.

Targeting children and separating families is cruel and un-American.



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ICE agents tried to enter a Chicago elementary school. Staff turned them away.
The incident comes amid a threatened Trump administration crackdown and sent ripples of fear through the K-8 school.

4:18 PM · Jan 24, 2025

The Chicago Tribune spread the hoax as well.



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ICE showed up at 11:15 a.m. This immigration action appears to be the first at a Chicago school after President Donald Trump took office.“It makes me so sad,” said Eva Chávez, a 37-year-old who lives in the neighborhood and came out after she heard about it.









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New: CPS confirmed that ICE agents visited Hamline Elementary in Back of the Yards Friday in Chicago.

3:47 PM · Jan 24, 2025

Of course, this was a lie.

Pritzker, Chicago Public Schools and the fake news media knew ICE agents never raided a Chicago elementary school but they still haven’t deleted their tweets.



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Chicago Public Schools falsely claimed they blocked ICE officers from entering a school today. The narrative took off - but apparently nobody bothered to check with DHS or ICE, which both denied the claim that ICE was at/near a school.

Turns out - it was Secret Service agents.


5:07 PM · Jan 24, 2025

Secret Service was investigating a threat and responded to a house.



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Replying to @BillMelugin_From the local article: “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.”

5:12 PM · Jan 24, 2025

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/another-hoax-blows-up-democrat-gov-pritzker-falsely/