🔗 Share this article National Immigration Agents in the Windy City Mandated to Use Worn Cameras by Judge's Decision A US judge has required that federal agents in the Windy City must wear recording devices following numerous incidents where they deployed projectiles, canisters, and chemical agents against demonstrators and local police, seeming to disregard a prior court order. Legal Displeasure Over Enforcement Tactics US District Judge Sara Ellis, who had earlier mandated immigration agents to display identification and forbidden them from using dispersal tactics such as tear gas without warning, showed significant displeasure on Thursday regarding the Department of Homeland Security's persistent forceful methods. "I live in the Windy City if folks didn't realize," she declared on Thursday. "And I can see clearly, right?" Ellis added: "I'm getting pictures and seeing footage on the television, in the newspaper, reading documentation where I'm feeling apprehensions about my decision being complied with." Broader Context The recent requirement for immigration officers to wear body cameras coincides with Chicago has become the current epicenter of the federal government's mass deportation campaign in the past few weeks, with intense government action. Meanwhile, community members in Chicago have been coordinating to stop apprehensions within their areas, while the Department of Homeland Security has characterized those actions as "disturbances" and stated it "is implementing reasonable and constitutional measures to support the rule of law and defend our personnel." Recent Incidents Earlier this week, after federal agents conducted a automobile chase and caused a multiple-vehicle accident, demonstrators chanted "Ice go home" and launched projectiles at the personnel, who, reportedly without alert, used tear gas in the direction of the protesters – and multiple local law enforcement who were also present. In another incident on Tuesday, a masked agent cursed at individuals, commanding them to back away while pinning a 19-year-old, Warren King, to the ground, while a bystander yelled "he has citizenship," and it was unknown why King was being apprehended. Recently, when legal representative Samay Gheewala sought to demand agents for a warrant as they detained an immigrant in his community, he was pushed to the pavement so forcefully his hands bled. Community Impact Additionally, some area children ended up required to stay indoors for recess after chemical agents permeated the streets near their recreation area. Comparable reports have surfaced nationwide, even as ex agency executives warn that apprehensions seem to be indiscriminate and comprehensive under the demands that the national leadership has placed on personnel to deport as many individuals as possible. "They appear unconcerned whether or not those persons present a danger to public safety," a former official, a ex-enforcement chief, stated. "They just say, 'If you're undocumented, you qualify for removal.'"