As attorneys face off in courtrooms and federal agents on the ground clash with protesters, Chicago is being cemented as the epicenter of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown after a flurry of developments in the last 24 hours.
Now — with the city heading into its first weekend since a fence outside the Broadview immigration enforcement facility has come down, and with the director of ICE’s Chicago field office ordered to appear in court Monday — the stage is set for a reckoning on crowd-control measures.
Several developments on Thursday put the Windy City under the national spotlight, including a federal appeals court upholding a lower court’s ruling temporarily denying the federal government’s effort to deploy National Guard troops in Illinois and a judge separately demanding answers on violent encounters with protesters in Chicago.
Tensions have flared as federal agents were dep
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