CHICAGO —
Many federal officers assigned to immigration enforcement in the Chicago area have body cameras, but Congress would have to allocate more funds to expand their use, officials testified Monday at a hearing about the tactics agents are using in the Trump administration’s crackdown, which has produced more than 1,000 arrests .
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis last week ordered uniformed agents to wear cameras, if available, and turn them on when engaged in arrests, frisks and building searches or when being deployed to protests. She held a hearing Monday at which she questioned a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official and a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official about the operation and complaints that agents are increasingly using combative tactics .
Kyle Harvic