CHICAGO (AP) — Federal officials are due in court Monday to take questions about the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Chicago area, which has produced more than 1,000 arrests as well as complaints that agents are increasingly using combative tactics .

The hearing comes a few days after a judge ordered uniformed immigration agents to wear body cameras — if the devices are available — and turn them on when engaged in arrests, frisks and building searches or when being deployed to protests.

The bodycam decision is the latest step in a lawsuit by news organizations and community groups witnessing protests and arrests in the Chicago area. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis initially said agents must wear badges, and she banned them from using certain riot control techniques

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