IDs are mismatched, illegible — or still missing three weeks after judge’s order to immigration officers

Three weeks ago, a federal judge in Chicago ordered federal immigration officers that have been sweeping area streets to add individual IDs to their uniforms, an order she repeated Tuesday in court directly to the Trump administration’s top immigration enforcer here.

But dozens of photographs of uniformed immigration agents shot by Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists in four separate locations since the court order show how the feds have fallen short. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis on Oct. 9 ordered “visible identification” that is “prominently displayed.”

The 80-plus photos show that not all officers are displaying a visible identification code that mixes numbers and letters during some of the most contentious recent immigration actions that have included chasing people through local nei