Federal immigration agents entered a North Center day care and arrested a teacher Wednesday before searching each of the rooms without a warrant, a local alderperson said.

Video captured two agents pulling the woman out of Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center at 2550 W. Addison St. around 7 a.m. The Department of Homeland Security identified the woman Wednesday as Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano of Colombia.

Galeano, known as “Ms. Diana” to parents and children, is heard in the recording telling an agent that she has documentation, but she was still detained. “Yo tengo papeles,” she says in the video.

She had been stepping out of the passenger seat of a car when she was approached by agents and she ran inside the day care center. The agents followed her inside before

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