A federal judge in Chicago is questioning top officials from ICE and Border Patrol over body cameras federal agents' use of force in Operation Midway Blitz.

Shawn Byers, deputy field office director for ICE, said no cameras have been worn by ICE agents working at a facility in Broadview that has been the site of protests.

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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.

For hours, a judge questioned officials at the heart of the government's immigration enforcement operation in Chicago on Monday.

The memo issued by the agency’s top human resources officer on Wednesday said the White House had directed DHS to continue “timely payment” to Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officers, U.S. Border Patrol agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, even though federal funding had lapsed.

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,

But the federal judge limited the deposition of Gregory Bovino to “how” federal officers are aggressively enforcing immigration law, not “why” they're doing it in Chicago.

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.