A Chicago couple is facing backlash after a 43-year-old woman and her 40-year-old boyfriend were video recorded taunting and making racist USICE remarks and threats including throwing an unidentified liquid at Mexican Folkloric teen dancers over the weekend.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
March 9, 2026
Chicago, Illinois - Last Friday, a group of teens who were leaving the Ballad Folklorico de Chicago dance studio in the Avondale neighborhood were met with a couple identified as Vanessa Soler, 43, and Rob Villanueva, 40, who were on the second floor balcony of the backside of their apartment building taunting and making USICE racist remarks at women and the teens. Soler in a recorded video of the incident is heard telling the teens, "you're lucky ICE is not here" and her boyfriend Villanueva is also heard repeating what Soler had shouted at the women and teens. Villanueva is also seen going into the apartment and then coming out with a container and he then throws an unidentified liquid at multiple teens and at three women ages, 40, 41 and 43 who were downstairs and he repeats it again.
Soler and Villanueva allegedly told media outlets that the teens were making noise while they were passing by their apartment building alley at 4010 - 4008 W. Wellington Ave. in Chicago.
The parents of the teens called and Miriam Gómez, an instructor of the Ballad Folklorico de Chicago says, that it's not the first time that Soler and Villanueva have made racist remarks at the teens from the dance studio.
Gómez is filing a protective order (restraining order) against Soler and Villanueva.
In a press release on Saturday, the Ballad Folklorico de Chicago at 3006 N. Pulaski Rd. says, "We have filed a police report and will filing a protective order on Monday and press charges. Behavior like that is Not Ok!"
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