If you didn’t know better, it would almost seem like Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (Dem), the Chicago Public School district, and the mainstream media actually want ICE Agents to conduct a raid on a school — just so they’ll have something tangible to scream about.
According to all three, that’s exactly what happened this week at a Chicago elementary school.
The only problem with that accusation is that it is completely and undeniably false.
But that hasn’t stopped the Governor and certain news outlets from sticking to their stories.
After all, why should a few stubborn FACTS get in the way of a perfectly usable political narrative?
First, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) made the claim that ICE Agents had raided an Elementary School on Chicago’s south side on Friday.
The Governor helped propagate the hoax, as well as multiple mainstream media outlets.
It turns out that a federal organization did visit the school.
The Secret Service reports that it responded to some sort of ‘threat’, but ICE and DHS both deny any involvement at the school in question.
Here’s a report by ABC 7 Eyewitness News out of Chicago with the accurate and truthful information regarding the hoax:
Amazingly, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker still has not retracted any of the false information he shared over two days ago.
Pritzker (which I have enjoyed pronouncing incorrectly, out loud, as I write) blamed Republicans for “sowing fear and chaos” for an event that never happened.
The reality, then, is that the Democrat Governor is… sowing fear and chaos… by propagating information that is known to be inaccurate. (That’s a nice way of saying that it was a LIE.)
Even the X Community Notes have pointed out the inaccuracy of the information being shared to slander President Trump’s immigration policy!
The truth of the matter is that the U.S. Secret Service responded to the school to investigate some sort of “threat” that has not been specified.
There were a total of ABSOLUTELY NO DHS or ICE agents at the school.
But the school officials immediately claimed that ICE agents were denied entry into the school when they attempted to enter; which was a complete and total lie, according to the corresponding article by the local ABC News affiliate:
Ultimately, the school issued a statement correcting its earlier assertion.
(Still, the Governor has not amended his false claims!)
Here’s the clarifying statement issued by the school:
I would point out that according to Chicago school officials, their idea of keeping their students and staff safe… hinges almost entirely on whether or not they are successful in denying entry to legitimate law enforcement personnel.
Not only is that a completely skewed view of “safety”, it is also a terrible precedent to set.
They are purposefully teaching kids that the DANGER they are most likely to face in life is from LAW ENFORCEMENT.
If my intention was to INCREASE the frequency and severity of bad interactions between law enforcement and the public in the future… that is exactly what I would attempt to do.
Nell Salzman of the Chicago Tribune has also continued to spread the false information, until she spoke to a Secret Service spokesperson who confirmed it was their agents, and not ICE, who approached the school because of some ‘threat’; not for immigration issues.
Mike Nellis, a democratic strategist and former adviser to Kamala Harris, couldn’t resist weighing in.
He, too, shared the false information with no retraction, even after the truth had been widely reported.
If you’ll notice, he did share the news story from ABC 7 out of Chicago. But he shared it on the 24th, before the story had been revised and updated to confirm the truth — that there had been no ICE raid at the school.
But once the story had been updated to reflect the truth, the public interface of the link still seems to indicate what the original story indicated; that ICE agents attempted to raid the school for immigration purposes.
Not to be left out, MSNBC also shared the hoax via a video report featuring Pedro Martinez, the Chief Executive Officer for Chicago Public Schools:
If there was still any question, the incident categorically did not involve ICE agents, according to a report quoting ICE officials by Newsweek:
Imagine that — the school inadvertently admitted that FEAR led to the misidentification of the Secret Service personnel, even after the Secret Service agents showed their credentials to the school leadership!
They somehow think their “fear” exonerates them, and casts blame on the person they are afraid of.
Sane people know that is an irrational logic, and deserves the ridicule they are now receiving online.
Stacy Davis Gates, President of the Chicago Teachers Union, held a press conference praising the school for following the protocol, which in effect thwarts the legitimate authority of law enforcement.
During the news conference, Davis brought the principal of the school in question to the microphone who reiterated that their primary job is to ‘protect their children’ from law enforcement.
It should be noted that the second half of the press conference was held in Spanish rather than English.
The bottom line is that all these entities — Pritzker, the principal, the Chicago Public School officials, and the mainstream media — all knew that ICE agents were never near the school.
It was a complete fabrication, another hoax, designed to make President Trump and those executing his immigration plan look bad. Nothing more.
And it is likely only the first of many more hoaxes as the information warfare increases, and democrats get more and more desperate to make President Trump look bad.
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