Chicago school leaders say immigration agents showed up to an elementary school today in what may be the first of such actions since the Trump administration this week reversed federal policy to now permit immigration enforcement inside schools,

However, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it was not their agency that attempted to enter the school.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement denies their agents visited an elementary school Friday morning on Chicago's South Side.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were turned away from a South Side elementary school Friday morning, according to officials.

Administrators at a Chicago school on Friday barred U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who “showed up” at the school on Friday morning. According to

The incident comes amid a threatened Trump administration crackdown and sent ripples of fear through the K-8 school.

Chicago Public Schools officials said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were denied entry from a South Side elementary school Friday morning.

After Chicago Public Schools (CPS) initially claimed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents visited a South Side elementary school Friday morning, it was later confirmed that this was not the case.

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a majority-Latino elementary school in the south side of Chicago on Friday, days after Donald Trump’s administration rescinded long-standing policy that prohibits law enforcement actions in schools and churches.

Chicago Public Schools officials said in a press conference Friday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents showed up at an elementary school in the city but were denied entry.

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