On Thursday, MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough, Chris Jansing, and Katy Tur flipped out over immigration agents arresting an illegal alien and teacher, Diana Galeano, who tried to evade police by running into a daycare where she worked, with Scarborough claiming that she was "abducted" by ICE agents.
As weekend host Antonia Hylton appeared on Jansing's show, she similarly claimed that agents "abducted" her, and Tur still had not done her homework and was unsure whether Galeano was in the country illegally.
On Morning Joe, Scarborough went over the top as he misleadingly claimed:
I mean, yesterday you actually had ICE agents raiding a preschool -- ICE agents raiding a preschool and grabbing a teacher, abducting a teacher in that preschool --grabbing her and taking her out. I wonder how that plays in Peoria. Not good. I wonder how that plays with young voters who fled the Republican party as quickly as possible a few days ago.
About 20 minute slater, co-host Mika Brezinski read a brief on the story and admitted that the illegal alien in question had run into the daycare after agents attempted a traffic stop:
... a Department of Homeland Security official later said it all stemmed from a failed traffic stop involving the teacher and another man, saying the pair fled into the daycare and tried to barricade themselves inside, quote, "recklessly endangering children."
At 1:21 in the afternoon, Jansing devoted eight minutes to the story. She began:
There's outrage and a lot of questions in Chicago after officials there say armed ICE agents pulled a teacher out of the daycare facility where she works and arrested her in front of teachers, parents and young children.
Before interviewing a local Democrat alderman, she spoke with Hylton about the story, who began by lamenting:
...what's particularly interesting -- and to many community members alarming -- about this is that this appears to be one of the first incidents in which federal agents have followed people into a private school.
Hylton soon cited a statement from DHS informing viewers that the two illegal aliens had gone into the school after fleeing a traffic stop by car, but she still ended up fretting:
HYLTON: But what we've heard from people, Chris, is that this was shocking and traumatizing not just for the people involved in the initial traffic stop, but for children who witnessed agents entering, again, a daycare, a preschool armed -- visibly armed.
JANSING: Little kids.
HYLTON: Yes, little kids who have seen this who are in shock that a teacher or person who's been part of their day to day lives was abducted in front of them this way. People described kids running and screaming and looking for cover because they were, of course, confused about what was happening here.
Toward the end of her 1p.m. show, Tur set up the segment:
Parents in Chicago are outraged after ICE arrested a teacher at a daycare in front of young students. It happened at a Spanish immersion private school as parents were dropping off their kids. Federal agents entered the daycare and detained the teacher after they chased her inside, allegedly following a traffic stop. Local officials and witnesses say the agents grabbed the teacher as parents and students looked on.
She then interviewed one of the parents, Adam Gonzalez, who provided video of the arrest that has been circulating. At one point, Tur was wondering why immigration agents were pursuing her after it was mentioned that Galeano claimed that she had papers:
TUR: And she was saying that she has papers. So if it's a --
GONZALEZ: Yes.
TUR: -- a traffic issue, it shouldn't just -- if she has papers, shouldn't that just be a, you know, a local law enforcement issue? A citation?
In contrast with MSNBC figures who complained about agents pursuing Galeano into the daycare even while admitting that she was trying to evade police, on Wednesday's Fox News at Night, journalist and guest Emmett Miller informed viewers that, even in Illinois, it is a criminal offense to evade police which will definitely get you arrested.
Transcripts follow:
Fox News at Night
November 5, 2025
11:31 p.m. Eastern
TRACE GALLAGHER: There's a video of a woman being arrested by ICE -- this thing went viral today. ... ICE Chicago at a daycare, right, when you see them bringing the woman out. And, of course, they kept saying -- the activists are just going after ICE, saying they're targeting a daycare. ... The Department of Homeland Security was talking about what actually happened in this thing. ...
But what they were saying is that this is a woman who actually came into the country in 2023, right? She came into the country allowed in by the Biden administration, and then she brought in her kids. She had somebody smuggle her kids in, says DHS, a month ago, and they ended up in a shelter, and they arrested her, and she ran into this daycare center, and she threatened the kids inside, Emmett. So that's what they say. You get one story from the activists and one from the actual officials.
EMMETT MILLER, FORMER TELEVISION JOURNALIST: Right, they tell you what they want you do know rather than what you should know. And what you should know is that her name is Diana Galeano -- what you should know is that she was running from police. The police have the lights and sirens on, she evaded them, they pulled over in front of the daycare. The police don't know what's going on -- they're making a targeted arrest. Two people run inside the daycare -- of course they're going to bring them out. Here's a pro tip: If you're running from the cops, you probably did something wrong, okay?
Number two, it doesn't matter whether you're an illegal alien, which she was, or whether you're a U.S. citizen. If you're running from the cops in Illinois, it's either a felony or it's a class A misdemeanor. Class A misdemeanor? One year in jail, $2,500 fine. They're going to arrest you. So someone looking from the outside of the video making a judgment about whether or not her legal papers were in order or weren't in order, or she's being targeted for the brownness of her skin has no idea what the cops are actually thinking when they're trying to pull someone over who's running from them.
GALLAGHER: That's exactly right.
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MSNBC's Morning Joe
November 6, 2025
7:07 a.m. Eastern
WILLIE GEIST: So, Joe, Karl Rove writing about something that we've been talking about a lot: overreach. The promise of immigration, sealing the border, and getting rid of, as the President said, murderers and rapists has now become getting rid of day laborers at Home Depot, having masked men at schools and daycare centers to get people out of the country.
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JOE SCARBOROUGH: On the overreach on immigration, I've said it for some time -- why the President can't just say the Southern border is secure -- "we win" -- and compare the Southern border in his year to what Joe Biden's averaged over four years. That's a win. He's never going to get the numbers. He's never going to get the numbers regardless of what Stephen Miller or anybody else says in the White House that Joe Biden got deporting immigrants because there were a lot more here by the border.
But he will cause grave damage to his presidency and to the Republican party if he really does believe, as he said on 60 Minutes this past weekend, that he doesn't think these seizures and this treatment of immigrants that caused the Pope and archbishops across America and the world to condemn it. He doesn't think those have gone far enough, that's, well, first of all, that's a real problem on the human level of course.
I mean, yesterday you actually had ICE agents raiding a preschool -- ICE agents raiding a preschool and grabbing a teacher, abducting a teacher in that preschool --grabbing her and taking her out. I wonder how that plays in Peoria. Not good. I wonder how that plays with young voters who fled the Republican party as quickly as possible a few days ago.
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7:27 a.m.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: And several families in Chicago say they are horrified after armed ICE agents pulled a teacher out of a daycare in front of young children. Local officials say the agents entered the daycare yesterday morning and removed the teacher while the young children, parents and staff were present watching. One local official called the arrest "violent" while one of the parents described the situation as heart-wrenching. In one video taken at the scene, the woman who was arrested can be heard telling authorities in Spanish that she had papers.
ICE did not immediately comment on the incident, but a Department of Homeland Security official later said it all stemmed from a failed traffic stop involving the teacher and another man, saying the pair fled into the daycare and tried to barricade themselves inside, quote, "recklessly endangering children." The man's status remains unclear, and we'll continue to follow this.
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Chris Jansing Reports
November 6, 2025
1:21 p.m.
CHRIS JANSING: There's outrage and a lot of questions in Chicago after officials there say armed ICE agents pulled a teacher out of the daycare facility where she works and arrested her in front of teachers, parents and young children.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: Our families have been traumatized. The children were crying, the parents were crying.
ADAM GONZALEZ, PARENT: It's really heart-wrenching to know that someone who has poured herself into my child is no longer here.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: My four-year-old already is crying at home right now asking me about how her teachers are going to be safe.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #3: What are we supposed to tell our children?
JANSING: MSNBC's Antonia Hylton follows this for us. She joins me now. What more do we know about what exactly happened here?
ANTONIA HYLTON: Well, Chris, we've tracked a number of these incidents here in Chicago and across the country, and what's particularly interesting -- and to many community members alarming -- about this is that this appears to be one of the first incidents in which federal agents have followed people into a private school.
This is a private daycare and preschool, and so for federal agents who normally have conducted operations outside of or actually take care to be far away from schools -- this is sort of part of an escalating pattern that we've seen in Chicago where there have been allegations of teargas near elementary schools and things like that, but this is one in which agents pursued this woman who they say was in the country illegally from Colombia into a daycare in which she worked.
It's also a confusing story here because while we hear that she is here present illegally from DHS -- the federal government -- Congressman Quigley has said that she had work authorization, was working legally here at this preschool, and there are also allegations from people like Congresswoman Delia Ramirez who says that they're in the process of getting additional video and more angles and security footage of this incident that they say will go directly against what we've been hearing from DHS.
Not only have they described her as present in the country unlawfully, but they said that this all stemmed from a traffic violation and an attempted traffic stop. Tricia McLaughlin from DHS said law enforcement pursued the vehicle before the assailants sped into a shopping plaza where the person driving the car was a man and the female passenger fled the vehicle and that that's basically what led to the agents pursuing her inside the school.
But what we've heard from people, Chris, is that this was shocking and traumatizing not just for the people involved in the initial traffic stop, but for children who witnessed agents entering, again, a daycare, a preschool armed -- visibly armed.
JANSING: Little kids.
HYLTON: Yes, little kids who have seen this who are in shock that a teacher or person who's been part of their day to day lives was abducted in front of them this way. People described kids running and screaming and looking for cover because they were, of course, confused about what was happening here. And so there are a lot of questions that community members as well as members of Congress in Illinois have about this and expect there to be more developments on this soon, Chris.
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Katy Tur Reports
November 6, 2025
2:52 p.m.
KATY TUR: Parents in Chicago are outraged after ICE arrested a teacher at a daycare in front of young students. It happened at a Spanish immersion private school as parents were dropping off their kids. Federal agents entered the daycare and detained the teacher after they chased her inside, allegedly following a traffic stop. Local officials and witnesses say the agents grabbed the teacher as parents and students looked on. Joining us now, Adam Gonzalez. He was at the daycare to drop off his son and recorded that video you just saw. So, Adam, what happened?
ADAM GONZALEZ, PARENT: It was a regular Wednesday morning. I was taking my son to school. We were getting ready to go inside, and I noticed something wasn't right. There was a sinking feeling that this is not a normal day, and, as I got out of the car to see why there was lights flashing -- to see what was happening, I noticed armed men in body armor with masks over their faces, I heard a teacher yelling, "I have papers," in English. I saw people carrying their children. I know there are children inside because there's a group of parents who dropped their babies off early, and it was devastating to see her -- to hear her crying. I'm still really tore up about it.
You know, the name of the school means "Little Ray of Sunshine" in English, and our babies are little rays of sunshine. And to see a teacher dragged out of a daycare by masked armed men who didn't care what she had to say -- who didn't care it was a daycare -- who didn't care there were parents everywhere -- who didn't care there were children inside -- is absolutely devastating. I'm still in shock -- I'm still processing everything that's happening, and I just can't believe that would happen at a daycare.
TUR: And she was saying that she has papers. So if it's a --
GONZALEZ: Yes.
TUR: -- a traffic issue, it shouldn't just -- if she has papers, shouldn't that just be a, you know, a local law enforcement issue? A citation?
GONZALEZ: I believe so. I'm not a law person official --
TUR: Yeah, I'm asking a legal opinion, but it -- it -- it seems strange. Can you tell me the reaction from the kids?
(GONZALEZ)
One of the local aldermen out there -- Matt Martin -- said that the teacher is being held in the Broadview facility that's outside of Chicago -- the one that's gotten so much attention. Can you just tell me what it's been like in your community lately? I mean, is this something that you have been preparing yourself for -- having to witness something like this?
GONZALEZ: This is not the first time I've witnessed ICE rip people away from a business or out of their cars. Unfortunately for a lot of us in Chicago who look like me, who have a Spanish last name, this is our reality. It's in all parts of the city -- it's not just in certain neighborhoods. There are -- I've seen ICE take people on the side of the street that are street vendors, they have been outside of schools, they've been at hospitals, they're taking people from all of these places where people seek refuge and people are just there to work. So it's something that's been a daily reality for myself, people who look like me, people in my community, and it has to stop.
TUR: You sound very emotional over this.
GONZALEZ: It's -- it's been two months of terror. Being afraid to take your son to school and being afraid to go to work, having in-laws who are afraid to go to church, hearing stories in the community of people who are just afraid to live because of who -- what they look like. There's no other word than "terror." Our community is in terror.
TUR: Are you afraid?
GONZELEZ: Yes, I'm afraid -- I'm afraid for speaking up. I'm afraid for using my voice. This administration has shown they will target people, so I am afraid.
TUR: Adam Gonzalez, I'm so sorry to hear that, and my heart goes out to you and all the kids and everybody who had to witness that at a daycare this morning. That's just an impossible thing to have to explain to young children and certainly a very difficult thing to witness no matter your age. Thank you for joining us today, though, and thank you for bringing us this story.
