CHICAGO (AP/WGN) — Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino will be in federal court in Chicago on Tuesday to take questions about the immigration enforcement operation in the Chicago area called Operation Midway Blitz, which has produced more than 1,800 arrests and complaints of excessive force.

Bovino, chief of the Border Patrol sector in El Centro, California — one of nine sectors on the Mexican border — has become the face of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns in Los Angeles and Chicago.

Tuesday's hearing comes after a federal judge earlier this month ordered uniformed immigration agents to wear body cameras, the latest step in a lawsuit by news outlets and protesters who say federal agents used excessive force, including the use of tear gas, during protests against immigration

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