A federal appeals court panel said Thursday that it would not let Trump send troops anywhere in Illinois for now, leaving in place a lower-court ruling blocking his administration from dispatching the National Guard there.
“The spirited, sustained, and occasionally violent actions of demonstrators in protest of the federal government’s immigration policies and actions, without more, does not give rise to a danger of rebellion against the government’s authority,” the panel wrote.
Federal officials remain in and around the Chicago area as part of an immigration action called “Operation Midway Blitz.” Protests and some clashes between demonstrators and authorities have continued to unfold in the area, particularly around an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, a nearby suburb, that has become the center of the confrontations.
During a hearing Thursday morning, a judge said she had “serious concerns” that federal authorities were not following an order she issued last week barring them from using tear gas on journalists and protesters who did not pose an immediate threat….
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Ellis said she had seen images in the news about what was happening with demonstrators.
The judge also said she would modify her earlier order that governed uses of force and expand it to require all federal immigration agents participating in the Midway Blitz campaign to wear body cameras. She did not immediately modify the order, however, and asked the parties in the case to confer about the issue.
ICE officers do not routinely wear body cameras. While ICE began a pilot program under President Joe Biden after an executive order directed federal law enforcement agencies to develop policies for camera use, the effort was never fully funded. Trump reversed the Biden executive order. The Department of Homeland Security has said giving ICE agents body cameras remains a priority….
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