Illegal immigrants were behind the attack on a Border Patrol convoy that sparked a dangerous car chase and riot in Chicago, officials confirmed Wednesday while decrying the “growing and dangerous” trend of violence against federal agents.

A federal judge in Chicago on Monday grilled U.S. immigration officials about federal agents' use of tear gas and other forceful tactics against protesters as part of President Donald Trump's crackdown in the city.

The Department of Homeland Security has said its ongoing immigration crackdown in the Chicago area is dedicated to Katie Abraham, an Illinois resident who died in January in a hit-and-run car wreck in

I had it on good authority that ICE protesters here in the Chicago suburbs and across the country are violent radicals. So I went to meet them.

Katrina Thompson, mayor of Broadview, lived in Los Angeles during the Rodney King riots. She says there's no comparison to the violence and chaos of that time to what's going on in Chicago.

U.S. Border Patrol agents operating in Chicago have now been equipped with body cameras, a development confirmed on Monday during a court hearing addressing the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. This initiative follows a judge's order amid complaints of increasingly combative tactics and over 1,000 arrests.

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis also allowed plaintiffs to take limited deposition from Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino as part of the excessive force lawsuit filed on behalf of Block Club Chicago and other organizations.

Protests are now only allowed outside the ICE facility on Beach Street and will no longer be allowed at 2000 S. 25th Ave., according to the decision, which was reached after consulting with the Cook County Sheriff's Office and the Illinois State Police.

President Donald Trump is leaning on a new appeals court ruling that endorsed his deployment of the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, as he urges the Supreme Court to let his administration carry out a similar effort in Chicago.