A federal judge’s 223-page opinion delivers a blistering account of federal agents using tear gas, rubber bullets and other force against Chicago-area protesters and journalists, often without warning or justification.
A federal judge in Chicago issued an extensive injunction restricting federal agents’ use of force, saying Thursday that a top Border Patrol official leading an immigration crackdown repeatedly lied about threats posed by protesters and news media.
A federal judge has ordered improvements at a Chicago-area immigration facility after detainees sued over "inhumane" conditions.
A judge has heard testimony about overflowing toilets, crowded cells, no beds and water that “tasted like sewer” at a Chicago-area immigration building.
A federal appeals court has blocked an order that required a senior Border Patrol official to brief a judge on Chicago immigration sweeps.
A federal judge has ordered a senior U.S. Border Patrol official to meet her daily “to hear about how the day went” after weeks of confrontations between immigration agents and the public in the Chicago area.
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city.
U.S. Border Patrol agents jumped out of the back of a rented Penske truck and made arrests at a Los Angeles Home Depot store during an immigration raid.
Recent immigration arrests show on video are showing a pattern emerging: more Border Patrol agents are working away from the border.
