Trump administration officials are defending themselves in court as a federal judge demands explanations for their response to tense protests against immigration enforcement actions in Chicago.

The No Kings protest in Valparaiso was part of roughly 2,500 similar demonstrations against the Trump administration planned across the country and globe.

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal officials are due in court Monday to take questions about the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Chicago area, which has produced more than 1,000 arrests as well as complaints that agents are increasingly using combative tactics.

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Salsa dancing, Bad Bunny songs, billowing flags and chanting protesters took over the streets around the Torch of Friendship monument during Saturday's "No Kings" protest in downtown Miami.

Jane Whedbee, 73, came to the Saturday’s No Kings protest in Gary wearing a cardboard crown, a flashlight with a plastic flame on top, and a shawl wrapped around her. Her cardboard sign

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.

CHICAGO - Troubled by clashes between agents and the public, a judge on Thursday ordered federal immigration officers in the Chicago area to wear body cameras and also summoned a senior official to court next week to discuss an enforcement operation that has resulted in more than 1,000 arrests.

The leader of a labor union in Southern California who was arrested while protesting an immigration raid earlier this year will have his charge reduced to a misdemeanor.

Some in Lake County are pushing back against a recent policy to join forces with federal agents for immigration enforcement.