The first official elected Chicago school board meeting focused on protecting Chicago Public School students from ICE, and a plea from the CPS CEO to undocumented parents.

The Secret Service is continuing to release information after Chicago school officials responded to what they thought was an ICE action Friday.

The operation began at a home and later extended to the school grounds.The agency stressed that it only investigates threats, does not enforce immigration laws.

Officials with Chicago Public Schools claimed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were seen at Hamline Elementary School. The Secret Service said special agents were investigating a threat.

CHICAGO -- The U.S. Secret Service said its agents visited a Chicago elementary school Friday while investigating a threat, hours after school officials mistakenly claimed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had come to the building.

At least eight large public school districts across the United States have vowed in recent days to try to protect undocumented immigrant students and their families from President Donald Trump's mass deportation push.

Chicago Public Schools officials reportedly mistook Secret Service agents for ICE officers during a chaotic morning incident amid migrant crackdowns.

The agents turned out to be unrelated to immigration, officials said hours later. They were from the Secret Service, investigating a threat.

Chicago Public Schools said its officials erred Friday when they claimed immigration agents had gone to a school, mistaken information that caused alarm amid fears

Chicago school officials claimed several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tried to enter a majority-Latino elementary school in the south side of Chicago on Friday, days after Donald Trump ’s administration rescinded long-standing policy that prohibits law enforcement actions in schools and churches.

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