The mother, Mercedes Wells, spoke with reporters on Tuesday with U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, who plans to introduce a bill to make sure what happened to Wells never happens again.
Diana Santillana Galeano was released Wednesday night from ICE detention in Indiana, her attorney Charlie Wysong said Thursday. She was arrested inside the North Center day care where she worked Nov. 5.
Feds wearing military-style camouflage gear and gas masks were seen tear-gassing and pepper-spraying protesters during the confrontation near the Little Village Discount Mall.
Dana Briggs of Rockford and four others are facing federal criminal charges after protesters clashed with federal agents outside the federal immigration facility in Broadview.
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.