Immigration enforcement operations should not be taking place in and around a day care center serving little kids.

That we need even to type that sentence in this 177-year-old newspaper boggles our collective mind. But such is life at present in Chicago, where a spluttering, increasingly dangerous series of battles is being waged on our streets and in our neighborhoods.

Yes, we know that precisely what happened at the Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion day care at 2550 W. Addison St. is disputed. That’s not our point.

Parents and workers there, backed up by local Democratic politicians, said that the targeted woman told ICE agents (speaking Spanish) that she had papers, only then to have her face slammed by a masked agent into a glass wall. Ald. Matt Martin, 47th, described the situation

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