Gil Kerlikowske ran U.S. Customs and Border Protection from 2014 to 2017. Before that, he was a longtime Seattle police chief. He says the Border Patrol is not trained for big-city policing.

During a hearing Monday, she pressed two federal officials over the response to ongoing and intense protests in Chicago amid Operation Midway Blitz, especially after she expanded her temporary restraining order to include having agents on the ground turn on their body worn cameras when encountering demonstrators.

"Jenkins was located and apprehended during a targeted arrest operation near North Pauline Street at approximately 1700 hours on October 19th," the press release read. "This operation reflects the Task Force’s strategic focus on high risk offenders and its commitment to swift, coordinated enforcement actions."

Federal immigration officials told U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis that no agents have violated internal use-of-force policies in clashes with protesters, nor had any been disciplined for it.

A raid last month signaled a sharp escalation in the White House’s immigration crackdown and ratcheted up tensions in a city already on edge.

Multiple street closures were reported in downtown Chicago as a large protest unfolded against the immigration policies of President Donald Trump. Late in the evening, the protesters were impacting traffic on southbound Michigan Avenue between Ida B.

David Huerta was arrested in June outside a business where federal agents were investigating suspected immigration violations.

Protestors gathered outside the Lake County Sheriff's Office on Monday night to voice their opinions surrounding the sheriff's agreements with Federal Immigration Enforcement.

A further protest outside an asylum-seeker temporary accommodation block is planned to take place at the weekend. It follows months of rising tensions surrounding immigration and asylum processing with demonstrators now set to return to Canterbury.

Police have sharply criticised protesters in Melbourne’s CBD after two officers were taken to hospital and rocks, glass and rotten fruit were thrown at officers during violent scuffles.Police spent hours on Sunday afternoon trying to keep anti-immigration protesters and counter-protesters apart.