🔗 Share this article National Enforcement Agents in Chicago Required to Use Recording Devices by Court Order A US judge has ordered that immigration officers in the Windy City must wear body cameras following multiple incidents where they employed chemical irritants, smoke grenades, and tear gas against protesters and city officers, seeming to contravene a earlier legal decision. Court Displeasure Over Operational Methods US District Judge Sara Ellis, who had earlier mandated immigration agents to show credentials and forbidden them from using riot-control techniques such as chemical agents without warning, voiced considerable concern on Thursday regarding the Department of Homeland Security's persistent aggressive tactics. "My home is in this city if folks haven't noticed," she stated on Thursday. "And I can see clearly, right?" Ellis further stated: "I'm receiving images and viewing footage on the media, in the paper, examining accounts where I'm having apprehensions about my decision being followed." Wider Situation The recent requirement for immigration officers to wear body cameras comes as Chicago has emerged as the most recent epicenter of the national leadership's mass deportation campaign in recent weeks, with aggressive agency operations. Simultaneously, residents in Chicago have been mobilizing to stop arrests within their neighborhoods, while federal authorities has characterized those efforts as "unrest" and stated it "is taking reasonable and constitutional measures to maintain the rule of law and protect our officers." Documented Situations Recently, after immigration officers led a vehicle pursuit and led to a multiple-vehicle accident, individuals shouted "Ice go home" and launched projectiles at the personnel, who, reportedly without alert, deployed irritants in the vicinity of the crowd – and 13 local law enforcement who were also present. In a separate event on Tuesday, a officer with face covering shouted expletives at individuals, commanding them to move back while holding down a young adult, Warren King, to the pavement, while a bystander cried out "he has citizenship," and it was uncertain why King was being apprehended. Over the weekend, when lawyer Samay Gheewala tried to demand officers for a legal document as they detained an person in his community, he was pushed to the pavement so forcefully his fingers bled. Local Consequences Additionally, some local schoolchildren ended up required to stay indoors for recess after tear gas spread through the roads near their school yard. Similar anecdotes have surfaced nationwide, even as ex immigration officials caution that arrests seem to be non-selective and broad under the pressure that the Trump administration has placed on officers to expel as many individuals as possible. "They appear unconcerned whether or not those people represent a danger to public safety," John Sandweg, a former acting Ice director, remarked. "They simply state, 'If you're undocumented, you're a fair target.'"