Reference News Network, November 7 report. According to Reuters, November 5 report, staff at a Spanish-language early childhood education center in a residential area in northern Chicago said that the center was raided by federal immigration officers on November 5, and a teacher was taken away, which caused panic among the center's management, infants, and parents.

Videos obtained by local Chicago television station WGN-TV show two men dragging a woman who was screaming out of the front door of the Sunlight Cross-Cultural Early Childhood Education Center. These men were wearing clothes with the word "police" printed on them, but no other police insignia was visible.

The woman is Diana Santillana, a teacher for the infant class from Medellín, Colombia. In the video, she can be heard saying in Spanish: "I have documents."

Illinois Democratic Congressman Mike Quigley said in a statement that the officers took the teacher in front of the children. After the raid, shocked parents stood in the parking lot of the Sunlight Cross-Cultural Early Childhood Education Center, saying that the center had told them recently that all teachers had legal work permits.

Tara Gudalzi, a parent and lawyer, said, "The children were crying, and the parents were crying." When she sent her three-year-old child to the Sunlight Cross-Cultural Early Childhood Education Center, three officers entered the building. She said, "This is a scene we will never forget."

This raid marks an intensification of President Trump's radical measures against immigrants in Chicago. The operation started in September, aiming to arrest dangerous criminals without legal residency. According to data from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the operation has led to the arrest of more than 3,000 people, including U.S. citizens and those without criminal records.

According to Associated Press, November 5 report, a federal judge ordered authorities to improve conditions at an immigration detention facility in the Chicago area on November 5. Previously, a group of detainees filed a lawsuit, claiming they were held in "inhumane" conditions.

The order requires officials to provide clean bedding and sufficient sleeping space for detained immigrants at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility located in Broadview, a suburb of Chicago, as well as soap, towels, toilet paper, toothbrushes, toothpaste, sanitary napkins, and prescription medication.

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman said, "People should not sleep next to toilets overflowing with dirty water, nor should they sleep huddled together."

The order states that the detention rooms at the facility must be cleaned twice a day. Detainees must be allowed to bathe at least every other day, and three meals and bottled water must be provided.

(Translation: Hu Xue, Xu Yanhong)

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