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Immigration officials overseeing the Department of Homeland Security’s “Operation Midway Blitz” were ordered to appear in Chicago federal court on Monday.

The judge sought an explanation of why federal immigration agents have used tear gas and other crowd control tactics against protestors of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement actions.

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis called the hearing after she told Trump administration lawyers last week she’s “not blind” to recent news reports that immigration agents used tactics like tear gas at least twice since she granted a temporary restraining order forbidding such tactics.

The CBP and ICE officials told Ellis they believed each use of force, both before and after her Oct. 9 restraining order, was justified, and t

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