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

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

Ellis' order followed enforcement actions in which tear gas was used, including in a neighborhood where children had gathered for a Halloween parade on the city's Northwest Side. Neighbors had joined in

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