Family Says ICE, CBP Pepper-Sprayed Toddler In Chicago Crackdown; 3,200 Arrests As Judge Limits Force

A Chicago-area family alleges a masked federal immigration agent pepper-sprayed a father and his 1-year-old in a Cicero Sam’s Club parking lot amid escalating ICE/CBP operations centered on Little Village. Family video shows a cloud striking the father and affecting the child; DHS denies pepper spray was used at that location. The incident comes amid a wider campaign with over 3,200 arrests and a federal injunction limiting agents’ use of force that DHS has appealed.