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“We are thrilled that Ms. Santillana was released, and has been
able to return home to Chicago where she belongs,” attorney
Charlie Wysong said in the statement. “We will continue to
pursue her immigration claims to stay in the United States. We
are grateful to her community for the outpouring of support over
these difficult days, and ask that her privacy be respected
while she rests and recovers from this ordeal.”
Her case reflects the Trump administration’s increasingly
aggressive enforcement tactics. But her detention at a day care
was unusual even under “Operation Midway Blitz,” which has
resulted in more than 3,000 immigration arrests in the Chicago
area since early September. Agents have rappelled from a Black
Hawk helicopter in a middle-of-the-night apartment building
raid, appeared with overwhelming force in recreational areas and
launched tear gas amid protests.
“I am so grateful to everyone who has advocated on my behalf,
and on behalf of the countless others who have experienced
similar trauma over recent months in the Chicago area,”
Santillana Galeano said in the same statement. “I love our
community and the children I teach, and I can’t wait to see them
again.”
The Department of Homeland Security said last week that the
woman. who is from Colombia, entered the U.S. illegally in June
2023 but obtained authorization to work under the Biden
administration. The department denied that the day care was
targeted.
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