When reached by CNN for comment, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials denied their agents were involved.

“This was not a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement encounter,” a spokesperson for the agency said in a statement to CNN Friday afternoon.

The Chicago Police Department also told CNN it was not called to the school.

Wait so did this happen or didn’t it? I can see ICE denying it, even through incompetence. Both of them denying it seems strange, though.

No, you see, the argument will go that as long as they’re here illegally and free, they’re “unsuccessfully under jurisdiction” and once they’re arrested, they’re “under jurisdiction” and therefore the child isn’t a US citizen but “obviously while they’re here they’ll be punished for their crimes” once they’re “successfully under jurisdiction”

I think they might actually buy the argument around jurisdiction, which is… scary.