“When something like that happens, you’ve got to allow your own society to cohere a little bit, to build a sense of common identity, for all the newcomers — the ones who are going to stay — to assimi...

By Diana Novak Jones, Renee Hickman and Ted Hesson CHICAGO (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Tuesday intensified her monitoring of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Chicago, requiring a top official to appear daily in court and ordering his agency to detail the use of force by its agents including firing tear gas at protesters and bystanders and to hand over body-camera video.

An appeals court intervened Wednesday and suddenly blocked an order that required a senior Border Patrol official to give unprecedented daily briefings to a judge about immigration sweeps in Chicago....

“I’m not going to tie the agents’ hands because I’m not out there, and that’s not my job,” Ellis said. “But I am going to expect that they know and understand their responsibilities on the use of forc...