By CHRISTINE FERNANDO, Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — A senior Border Patrol official is due in court Wednesday for the first of his daily court-mandated check-ins about the Chicago area immigration enforcement operation, which has produced more than 1,800 arrests and complaints of excessive force.

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis took the rare step Tuesday of ordering Greg Bovino, who is leading Border Patrol efforts in Chicago, to brief her every evening. It is an unprecedented bid to impose real-time oversight on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the city after weeks of tense encounters and increasingly aggressive tactics by agents.

Ellis’ order followed enforcement actions in which tear gas was used, including in a neighborhood where children had gathered for

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