CHICAGO — U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to immigration enforcement in the Chicago area have been given body cameras, an official testified Monday as a judge held a hearing to learn more about the Trump administration's crackdown, which has produced more than 1,000 arrests as well as complaints that agents are increasingly using combative tactics .

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis last week ordered uniformed agents to wear cameras, if available, and turn them on when engaged in arrests, frisks and building searches or when being deployed to protests.

Each Border Patrol agent who is part of Operation Midway Blitz “now has a body-worn camera,” Kyle Harvick, deputy incident commander with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told the judge.

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