U.S. Secret Service agents—and not members of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement—visited an elementary school in Chicago on Friday to investigate a threat, the agency said, after the visit sparked concerns of an immigration raid on the majority Latino school. Chicago Public School officials said the agents only identified themselves as belonging to the Department of Homeland Security, which encompasses both the Secret Service and ICE. “It had nothing to do with Chicago or the community, other than they were investigating the … person who made the threat,” a Secret Service spokesman said, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The spokesman added that the threat was linked to the looming ban of TikTok, while Troy LaRaviere, president of the Chicago Principals & Administrators Association, said the threat was made against President Donald Trump, the Sun-Times reported. School officials didn’t allow the agents—who they believed were part of ICE—into Hamline Elementary School because they didn’t have a signed warrant. Trump has focused on Chicago has a target for immigration raids; his administration’s new Department of Homeland Security policies rescinded Biden-era rules by allowing ICE and Customs and Border Patrol agents to enter schools, churches and health-care facilities.
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