A federal judge in Chicago is questioning top officials from U.S. Customs and Immigration and Customs Border Protection over federal agents' use of force in Operation Midway Blitz.On Friday, the judge reinforced her order for all federal agents in the Chicago area to wear body cameras,

Over 250,000 Americans have applied to become federal law enforcement with the Department of Homeland Security’s Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Washington Examiner has learned.

Plus: Chicagoans are blowing the whistle on ICE, a workshop for Mexican immigrants interested in self-deportation and more.

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol ( CBP) officers to wear body cameras as they operate in Chicago, responding to the recent crackdown by President Donald Trump 's administration in the major midwestern city.

Trump’s administration will pay tens of thousands of ICE and CBP agents during the shutdown, shielding them from missed pay as other federal workers go unpaid. US PresidentDonald Trump's administration has promised tens of thousands of federal agents carrying out his immigration crackdown that they will be paid during the government shutdown,

The Trump administration's mass deportation crackdown has sent waves through sanctuary cities Chicago and Portland in recent weeks.

Its agents are immigration officers, like officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, which is also part of the Department of Homeland Security. While ICE has traditionally operated in the country, Border Patrol’s focus is the 6,000 miles of international border and a zone of about 100 miles inland.