After Wednesday’s CBS Evening News peddled the supposed sob story about an illegal immigrant daycare worker being arrested in Chicago, its morning counterpart CBS Mornings was joined by ABC’s Good Morning America in doubling down on what the left has dubbed another kidnapping and heartless Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents storming a daycare, terrorizing children.
Of course, that wasn’t what happened as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed the woman in question and a male companion refused to engage in a traffic stop and led police on a chase until they reached the daycare where the woman could run inside. In turn, she could then use the children as human shields.
“Dramatic arrest. Eyewitnesses say federal immigration agents dragged a teacher out of the day care where she works. The reaction this morning,” GMA co-host Michael Strahan declared in a tease.
Cuing up chief investigative correspondent Aaron Katersky a little later, Strahan’s lead-in painted ICE as the ones in the wrong, seemingly grabbing a “teacher” willy nilly: “We’re gonna move on now to the arrest of a teacher at a Chicago daycare center taken into custody by ICE agents. Critics say the agency went too far. The government is defending the arrests[.]”
So predictable: ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ is out here Thursday just accepting hook, line, and sinker the sob story of mean ICE agents storming a Chicago daycare for an illegal alien.
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2025
They only gave two passing nods to what @TriciaOhio and DHS have said that the woman refused… pic.twitter.com/toSHHhlftu
Katersky led with the “outrage in Chicago” from the arrest by ICE “following a beloved teacher into her daycare and then dragging her out in front of the kids.”
Never did Katersky admit the woman have led police on a chase to achieve this exact aim.
Only then did Katersky offer one of two throwaway lines to DHS:
The Department of Homeland Security says that’s not what happened at all. Rayito de Sol Spanish immersion early learning center had just opened for the day. Parents were dropping off kids when eyewitnesses say federal immigration agents chased a woman who cares for infants inside the school, then forcibly took her out.
Of course, he had sympathetic soundbites:
ADAM GONZALES: For someone to just take a preschool teacher who pours herself into these children is just not right.
KATERSKY: Elected officials say the agent showed no warrant and ignored the teacher when she told them she had work papers.
CONGRESSWOMAN DELIA RAMIREZ (D-IL): They didn’t just walk in chasing one person. They went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present. This is an agency that has gone rogue.
Then came a truncated summary from DHS:
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said “officers attempted to targeted traffic stop,” but the male driver and female passenger “ran into a day care center and attempted to barricade themselves inside.” ICE said the teacher, Diana Galeano, enter the country illegally and 2023 and last month tried to smuggle in her children.
The sympathy resumed with Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL) and “parent Maria Guzman” expressing horror at what the latter called “a nightmare.”
Katersky ended by fretting “in this teacher’s community, there is real worry, guys, about where these ICE agents may go next,” which co-host George Stephanopoulos replied that’s “understandable.”
CBS was so irked by this that they teased it three different times. In the second, co-host Nate Burleson reported: “Alright, coming up, a teacher is arrested and dragged out of a pre-k by ICE agents in front of parents and kids. We will show you the growing backlash.”
Co-host Gayle King had the setup: “A federal immigration arrest at a daycare center sparked an uproar in Chicago, a big one. Witnesses say the arrest caused chaos at this facility. Officials say the woman was detained after trying to get away.”
Correspondent Ash-har Quraishi’s report was nearly identical to what ran on Wednesday’s Evening News, which our Jorge Bonilla nailed as having been entirely “sympathetic” toward the arrest and parroting of the denunciations as fact with a throwaway line about what DHS has said (click “expand”):
QURAISHI: This video captured the moment ICE agents dragged a pre-k teacher out of a daycare 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.”
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 at the time of the arrest say they were traumatized by what they saw.
PARENT MARIA GUZMAN: What has happened today is domestic terrorism, and it is absurd and horrific that they have now targeted our daycare 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 daycare center and said Galeano was in a car that sped away from ICE agents and then fled on foot in the daycare center where she was arrested. ICE officials say their operations target specific individuals, not locations, and that agents follow the law. But their tactics have come under fire with critics calling them excessive or dangerous, especially when arrests happen near schools or in public places.
To see the relevant transcripts from November 6, click here (for ABC) and here (for CBS).
