The statement sought by CBS News and provided by the Department of Homeland Security completely undermined the report on a Chicago ICE arrest that ran on the Evening News. But the network ran the report nonetheless, burying the DHS’s statement at the end of the report.
Here is that report in its entirety, as aired on the CBS Evening News on Wednesday, November 5th, 2025:
MAURICE DuBOIS: There is outrage in Chicago tonight following a federal immigration arrest at a day care center.
JOHN DICKERSON: While witnesses say it was a chaotic scene, officials say the day care was not the primary target. Ash-har Quraishi has the story.
ASH-HAR QURAISHI: This video captured the moment ICE agents dragged a pre-K teacher out of a day care center on Chicago’s North Side. She can be seen pleading with the agents as she is pushed up against a waiting sedan. At one point, she shouts in Spanish, “I have papers.”
MIKE QUIGLEY: ICE agents followed a teacher into the facility without a warrant and abducted her in front of her students. This woman is a trusted, loved member of her community. With a work permit.
QURAISHI: Officials identified the woman as Diana Galeano, a Colombian national in the country since 2023 and seeking asylum. Children, teachers, and parents inside of the time of the arrest said they were traumatized by what they saw.
MARIA GUZMAN: What has happened today is domestic terrorism, and it is absurd and horrific that they have now targeted our day care centers.
QURAISHI: Until recently, sensitive areas like schools and hospitals were generally off-limits to immigration enforcement. That changed under the second Trump administration. Today’s incident the latest in a string of controversial arrests that have been happening across Chicago, as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
In a statement to CBS News, the Department of Homeland Security denied targeting the day care center and said Galeano sped away from ICE agents in a car and then fled on foot into the day care center, where she was arrested.
DuBOIS: Ash-Har Qureishi in Chicago. Thank you.
The first three words out of Maurice Dubois’ mouth betray the whole purpose of the report. “There is outrage.” The intent of this report is to gin up outrage among viewers at the sight of ICE arresting a woman who entered a day care center, and to evoke the debunked “ICE is making arrests in schools” narrative.
The sequence of the report is: the allegation, the denunciation by Congressman Mike Quigley, sympathetic profile of the arrestee, additional denunciation of the arrest as “domestic terrorism”, the callback to “ICE in schools”, and the report closes with a summary of the DHS statement.
Quraishi’s summary of the statement seems brief. Come to find out, there are additional facts that didn’t make it to the report. This is what the DHS posted on X in response to Rep. Quigley, and which is likely to have mirrored the statement sent to CBS:
Congressman, you are deliberately misrepresenting the facts.
ICE law enforcement did NOT target a daycare and were only at this location because the female illegal alien fled inside.
Here is the real story:
Officers attempted to conduct a targeted traffic stop of this female… https://t.co/a5BdcbhnwC
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) November 5, 2025
Congressman, you are deliberately misrepresenting the facts.
ICE law enforcement did NOT target a daycare and were only at this location because the female illegal alien fled inside.
Here is the real story:
Officers attempted to conduct a targeted traffic stop of this female illegal alien from Colombia.
Officers attempted to pull over this vehicle, which was registered to a female illegal alien, with sirens and emergency lights, but the male driver refused to pull the vehicle over.
Law enforcement pursued the vehicle before the assailant sped into a shopping plaza where he and the female passenger fled the vehicle. They ran into a daycare and attempted to barricade themselves inside the daycare—recklessly endangering the children inside.
The illegal alien female was arrested inside a vestibule, not in the school.
Upon arrest, she lied about her identity.
The vehicle is registered to in her name, though she claims that she didn’t know the man who was driving her car and just picked him up from a bus stop.
Facts including criminality and information on the male assailant are forthcoming and we will update the public with more information as soon as it becomes available.
These are significant facts that would have severely undermined the report had they been reported earlier on, or had the statement been presented more fulsomely. But the purpose of the report was to gin up some outrage over immigration raids- and not actually to inform the public.
