CHICAGO >> A federal judge in Chicago said today that she was “profoundly concerned” that federal agents might have violated a court order that she had issued setting strict limits on their use of tear gas and requiring them to give protesters warnings to disperse.

Judge Sara L. Ellis of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois also said she would order federal agents to wear body cameras, and for the director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Chicago field office to appear in her courtroom Monday morning.

The order is focused on Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration’s deportation effort in the Chicago area that began in September. As agents from Border Patrol and ICE have started conducting high-profile raids, Chicago area residents have protested,

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