ICE agents detain teacher at Chicago preschool and daycare in North Center

Video taken by a bystander and reviewed by CBS News Chicago shows two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detaining a woman at a North Central day care center Wednesday morning.

The video shows two masked, plainclothes federal agents wearing vests that read “POLICE” at the Raita del Sol Spanish Language School and Day Care Center in Roscoe Village. A woman can be heard screaming through the glass doors as agents physically drag her out the door and at one point scoop her up. They throw her face first into the outer door and push her out.

Another video showing more agents outside the school shows “POLICE ICE” written on their vests.

Stepping outside, she encounters a dark gray sedan parked outside a building as agents try to handcuff her with her hands behind her back. One agent returns inside briefly as she is seen pointing at and talking to another agent.

The video was quickly circulated among local parent WhatsApp groups and posted on social media.

CBS News spoke with Raita del Sol District Director Roscoe, who confirmed that the woman is the preschool teacher who was just detained during the phone call, but she did not have any additional information.

Ald. Matt Martin, who represents District 47, where the school is located, said he saw video from inside and outside the daycare center that showed what he said was a teacher being brutally detained in front of children.

“This is some of the most chilling footage I have ever seen, especially during my tenure,” Martin said.

Martin said the video showed the teacher was followed into the building by what he said were ICE agents. He said the agents were not invited into the building and that they were armed with weapons and walked around the facility in the presence of children and teachers.

Martin said he is demanding the teacher's immediate release and is working through all legal means to ensure that happens as quickly as possible.

“I saw dozens of parents and teachers cry,” he said. “You have an educator going inside to teach our children, and you have federal agents with guns going inside without permission to forcibly take her away.”

“Our communities don’t need this right now,” Martin added. “This is not the help we need from the federal government, and I just hope we have leaders in Washington who see what's happening and help it stop. I can’t put into words what it was like to walk in and see all these families and teachers distraught.”

CBS News Chicago has reached out to the school and the Department of Homeland Security for more information and is awaiting a response.