However, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it was not their agency that attempted to enter the school.

Chicago school leaders say immigration agents showed up to an elementary school today in what may be the first of such actions since the Trump administration this week reversed federal policy to now permit immigration enforcement inside schools,

A rumored sighting of immigration agents attempting to enter an elementary school on Chicago’s Southwest Side on Friday was in fact U.S. Secret Service agents investigating a threat, a federal spokesperson said late Friday afternoon.

According to the school's principal, Natasha Ortega, agents were not allowed entry or permitted to speak with students or staff.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents attempted entry into a Chicago elementary school Friday morning, but were not allowed inside or permitted to speak to anyone inside, Chicago Public Schools officials said.

President Donald Trump's mass deportation scheme purportedly included an attempted elementary school raid on Friday.

Team they approached a South Side school Friday. Chicago Public Schools officials had initially said the agent or agents were from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.