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Federal agents have now detained two Chicago Public Schools students in separate immigration operations that turned violent on city streets — one on the East Side (Oct. 14) and another in Little Village (Oct. 23).
Both were minors. Both incidents happened during the school day.
Both incidents expose a deeper question — why children are being conditioned to join adult political conflict.
Federal agents rolled into Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood Thursday morning in a caravan of unmarked SUVs.
📍 Little Village: The Discount Mall Detainment (October 23, 2025)
Led by U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, agents deployed tear gas near the Little Village Discount Mall at 26th and Whipple, where a crowd of protesters had surrounded their vehicles.
Witnesses reported shouting, panic, and confusion as gas filled the air and bystanders scattered along the Whipple Avenue sidewalks.
Several videos posted to Facebook and TikTok show agents in military-style gear moving from the parking lot north of the Go EZ Service Station (3024 W. 26th St.), the same location later confirmed in Sun-Times photos.
Amid the confrontation, a Benito Juarez Community Academy student — identified on social media as 16-year-old Devin Soto — was taken to the ground and detained along with two adults.
The location, roughly two miles from the Juarez campus (a 35-minute walk), placed the student well off school grounds during his detention.
“He’s a kid!” one woman shouted as bystanders recorded on their phones.
DHS officials later defended the operation as consistent with agency protocol and necessary for public safety, while declining to comment directly on the student’s detention.
The student was later released, according to family posts and school contacts.
The incident occurred during regular class hours, while Juarez remained open.
That timing matters.
It means a minor was off campus, unsupervised, and caught in a federal enforcement operation — a dangerous intersection between street politics and public education.
Nine days earlier, a 15-year-old boy was detained by Border Patrol agents on Chicago’s far Southeast Side following a high-speed chase and crash near 105th Street and Avenue N.
📍 East Side: The Federal Pursuit and Student Detainment (October 14, 2025)
The pursuit ended when federal agents executed a PIT maneuver on a red SUV driven by Venezuelan nationals later identified as Luis Gerardo Pirela-Ramirez and Yonder Enrique Tenefe-Perez, both living in the country illegally.
Video footage shows the red vehicle spinning out and crashing, followed by agents swarming the scene in tactical gear.
Moments later, a crowd of residents gathered — and agents responded by deploying tear gas and pepper munitions into the streets.
Amid the confusion, the 15-year-old — whose family says he suffers from a heart condition — was slammed to the ground, zip-tied, and held for five hours without family contact.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, the teen was arrested after allegedly throwing an egg at a Border Patrol agent during the confrontation.
The arrest took place off school property, during regular class hours, miles from any educational setting.
Eyewitness accounts and media footage confirm agents fired chemical agents that affected nearby residents and at least 13 Chicago police officers who had responded to assist.
The boy’s mother, Juanita Garnica, said she had no idea where her son was for hours after he was taken. Attorneys from Romanucci & Blandin allege he was handcuffed and held in a garage without explanation or access to counsel.
Federal officials disputed those claims, saying the teen admitted to throwing the object and was released without charges.
DHS later called reports of a “kidnapping” “bizarre and categorically false.”
The Chicago Teachers Union has publicly condemned recent ICE and Border Patrol raids as “terrorizing families and children,” calling for community defense and legal support for affected students, but has not commented on whether CPS staff were aware of student absences during the incidents.
Whose Fault Students Were Detained
Both incidents occurred off school grounds but during regular class hours, raising urgent questions about supervision, attendance accountability, and district responsibility.
This isn’t just a scheduling issue — it’s a potential violation of state law.
Under Illinois’ compulsory attendance statutes (105 ILCS 5/26-1 and 26-2a), all students between ages 6 and 17 must attend school during the full term unless excused for a limited set of reasons — such as illness, religious observance, or family emergency.
Political activity or protests are not valid causes for absence.
School officials or staff who knowingly allow or fail to prevent truancy can face discipline for neglect of duty under 105 ILCS 5/26-10 — an offense that can carry administrative or employment sanctions.
Districts are also required under 105 ILCS 5/26-12 to investigate and document any unexcused absences; deliberate misreporting of attendance data can trigger State Board or DCFS review.
There should be an immediate investigation into attendance records for these and any other students who participated in protests during school hours — including whether teachers or administrators encouraged, excused, or failed to report those absences.
If any adult associated with Chicago Public Schools or its union affiliates knowingly placed students in or directed them toward an environment where confrontation with law enforcement was foreseeable, that conduct may also meet the threshold for child endangerment under 720 ILCS 5/12C-5.
In plain terms: the issue is no longer whether these students went willingly — it’s whether adults in authority knowingly allowed or enabled minors to enter harm’s way during the school day.
But the legal questions lead to an even deeper one: where did this impulse to mobilize children originate?
The Classroom Ideology Behind the Chaos
The detainments of two minors — in separate neighborhoods, nine days apart — aren’t random.
They trace back to a system where activism is no longer extracurricular; it’s institutional.
That lineage begins with Carol Caref, a Chicago math teacher and lifelong member of the Progressive Labor Party, a Maoist-aligned organization that preaches “revolution through youth and workers.”
In 1997, Caref took a student to an anti-KKK rally that turned violent. When CPS moved to discipline her, the Chicago Teachers Union defended her, and a hearing officer praised her “commendable” actions.
She later rose to become a key architect within the CTU’s policy and curriculum divisions — an ideological gatekeeper shaping social-justice education across the district.
This is the same framework that glorified “direct struggle” as educational practice — the belief that students must not only study oppression but perform resistance through confrontation.
It’s a pedagogy rooted in Maoist doctrine — teaching that revolution is lived, not studied.
From Pedagogy to Protest
Critics argue that the doctrinal pipeline that began when Carol Caref defended taking a student to a militant protest in 1997 now runs through CTU’s policy divisions.
As an ideological gatekeeper, she helped cement a culture where classroom activism and street confrontation became two sides of the same lesson plan.
And now, nearly three decades later, students are skipping school to confront federal agents — and getting arrested for it.
Curriculum Turned Campaign
This isn’t coincidence.
It’s curriculum turned campaign.
The same Maoist-derived belief that valorizes “direct struggle” threads through Chicago’s activist pedagogy, converting classrooms into recruiting grounds and minors into ideological participants.
Where Mao used Red Guards, Chicago now calls it “youth empowerment.”
Two minors detained in federal operations.
Two classroom absences that ended in arrests.
And a district ideology that turns children into symbols of battles they never chose to fight.
The system calls it education, but the streets show something else entirely.
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Image: Two minors detained by federal agents in Chicago — one on the East Side (Oct. 14) and another in Little Village (Oct. 23) — both during school hours.
When classrooms become staging grounds, the lesson isn’t civics — it’s control.
Sources: DHS, CPD MINS, Romanucci & Blandin, Chicago Sun-Times, http://SubX.News field reports (Oct 14–23, 2025)
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(below) person in black puilled up by ICE agents is the minor
