🔗 Share this article National Immigration Agents in the Windy City Ordered to Use Recording Devices by Judicial Ruling A US court has required that immigration officers in the Chicago area must utilize recording devices following numerous events where they employed projectiles, smoke devices, and irritants against demonstrators and city officers, appearing to violate a previous judicial ruling. Court Concern Over Enforcement Tactics Court Official Sara Ellis, who had earlier ordered immigration agents to display identification and banned them from using crowd-control methods such as irritants without alert, expressed considerable displeasure on Thursday regarding the Department of Homeland Security's continued heavy-handed approaches. "My home is in the Windy City if people didn't realize," she declared on Thursday. "And I'm not blind, correct?" Ellis further stated: "I'm receiving images and viewing footage on the television, in the paper, examining reports where I'm experiencing apprehensions about my order being obeyed." National Background This new directive for immigration officers to use body cameras comes as Chicago has turned into the most recent focal point of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement push in the past few weeks, with intense federal enforcement. At the same time, residents in Chicago have been mobilizing to prevent detentions within their areas, while DHS has described those actions as "rioting" and stated it "is using reasonable and legal measures to uphold the rule of law and defend our agents." Documented Situations Recently, after enforcement personnel led a car chase and resulted in a multiple-vehicle accident, demonstrators yelled "You're not welcome" and threw projectiles at the personnel, who, seemingly without notice, used chemical agents in the direction of the protesters – and 13 city police who were also present. In a separate event on Tuesday, a concealed officer shouted expletives at protesters, ordering them to back away while holding down a young adult, Warren King, to the ground, while a bystander cried out "he has citizenship," and it was unclear why King was being apprehended. Over the weekend, when lawyer Samay Gheewala attempted to demand agents for a warrant as they detained an individual in his neighborhood, he was pushed to the ground so strongly his palms bled. Local Consequences Additionally, some neighborhood students ended up obliged to stay indoors for recess after irritants spread through the area near their playground. Similar accounts have surfaced across the country, even as former immigration officials warn that arrests look to be random and sweeping under the pressure that the Trump administration has imposed on personnel to deport as many individuals as possible. "They don't seem to care whether or not those individuals present a threat to community security," John Sandweg, a ex-enforcement chief, stated. "They simply state, 'If you're undocumented, you're a fair target.'"