ICE arrest of migrant sparks anger protest before violent gang ties exposed

The apprehension of an amerciable migrant who was dropping students astatine schoolhouse in Chicago earlier this week sparked section fury and a rally, but Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) person since revealed the fishy is simply a convulsive pack subordinate with a agelong rap sheet.

Francisco Andrade-Berrera, 37, a Mexican citizen, was picked by ICE connected Wednesday adjacent a Southside Chicago school, starring to activists and section leaders holding a rally condemning the move. Video obtained by Fox News shows 2 agents handcuffing Andrade-Berrera adjacent the school.

In effect to the arrest, 2 adjacent schools activated "Community Wellness Protocols" and notified parents that further societal enactment enactment would beryllium disposable to assistance students header with the "stressful and upsetting" quality of the event. 

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The apprehension of an amerciable migrant, left, who was dropping students to schoolhouse successful Chicago earlier this week sparked a protest, but ICE person since revealed the fishy is simply a convulsive pack subordinate with a agelong rap sheet. (ICE/WFLD/Fox News)

During the rally, which took spot extracurricular the Chicago Public Schools, Chicago alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez asked: "When parents are being grabbed from our schools, we indispensable ask, what is Chicago Public Schools doing to support our children?" 

Hilario Dominguez of the Chicago Teachers Union besides blasted the detention and launched a tirade against President Donald Trump.

"His children watched arsenic their daddy was enactment successful handcuffs by agents carrying retired the orders of a tyrant president," Dominguez said. 

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, on with different national instrumentality enforcement agencies, be a pre-enforcement gathering successful Chicago, Illinois connected Jan. 26, 2025.  (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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But the outbursts erupted earlier the afloat facts of the lawsuit came through, with ICE telling Fox News that Andrade-Berrera is a member of a convulsive thoroughfare pack with transgression convictions for cause trafficking, pack loitering and harm to property.

He has been removed from the U.S. twice, successful 2005 and 2013. He has astatine slightest 4 children, according to anterior reports.

The 2 students who were successful the conveyance were taken to their schools aft the apprehension but agents did not effort to participate either Victoria Soto High School oregon Jovita Idar Elementary, ICE and schoolhouse officials confirmed. It is unclear if the students are his children.

Andrade-Berrera pleaded blameworthy successful 2023 to purchasing astir 5 ounces of cocaine that national prosecutors successful Chicago said helium planned to sell, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. 

He was sentenced to 3 years of supervised merchandise and fixed recognition for 2 weeks spent successful custody.

Andrade-Berrera described himself arsenic a hubby and the "father of 4 beauteous kids," successful a missive to a justice explaining that helium worked arsenic a cook and dreamed of opening his ain restaurant, per the outlet.

"I person worked hard to enactment my household each these years and made definite they person a bully life," helium wrote. "If I could spell backmost successful clip I would without hesitation."

His woman told the justice he’s a dedicated father, noting that she and the children "need him with us" and that her biggest fearfulness is him "going distant and leaving us.'

This incidental follows a akin concern conscionable a period ago, erstwhile Chicago Public Schools wrongly reported that ICE agents had tried to participate a antithetic schoolhouse successful the area.

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Tom Weitzel, a erstwhile constabulary main successful Riverside, Illinois, said that section Democrats are trying to politicize the arrests and marque ICE retired to beryllium a boogeyman.

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"They're going to enactment retired thing that benefits their agenda, benefits their narrative, oregon benefits their governmental agenda… So they conscionable look astatine this arsenic a President Trump inaugural to conscionable spell astir the state and conscionable scoop radical disconnected the sidewalks and retired of our schools. And that isn't the case. 

"There hasn't been 1 azygous lawsuit successful the United States wherever ICE has gone into a schoolhouse and removed idiosyncratic forcibly from the school. That is wholly false."