As immigration enforcement has ramped up around the Chicago area, photojournalists have seen it all up close. Sometimes, they’re even caught in the middle.

Chicago Sun-Times photojournalist Anthony Vazquez was on the scene this week when federal immigration agents tear-gassed protesters and Chicago police officers on the city’s Far Southeast Side. The images he captured — of federal agents restraining and menacing protesters — have stirred viewers around the world, including a federal judge and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who wrote that Trump administration officials “need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents. … The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.”

Vazquez brings a particular kind of experience to covering protests like these: He served in the U

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