A federal judge in Chicago today issued a sharp rebuke of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement tactics, saying federal officers used force against protesters and members of the media that, quote, shocks the conscience.

Judge Sarah Ellis said she saw little reason for the force currently used and extended restrictions on federal agents that she issued last month.

Chicago has been at the epicenter of the administration's crackdown. Just yesterday, multiple

armed ICE agents arrested a daycare worker in front of children pulling her out of the building

and forcibly detaining her. Late last month, they disrupted a suburban Halloween parade, deploying tear gas

and arresting several people as parents and children watched. And agents have used aggressive

tactics like pulling this man out of his car, wrestling him to the ground, and punching him

repeatedly during an arrest last week after he collided with the rear of a Border Patrol vehicle.

For more on all this, I'm joined now by Heather Sharon of WTTW, Chicago's PBS station.

Heather, good to see you. Thanks for joining us.

Happy to be here. So Judge Ellis's decision followed an eight-hour hearing yesterday,

which she heard testimony from multiple people.

What should we understand about what led to her decision and those really sharp words she

had for the Trump administration?

Well, Judge Ellis spent the bulk of the 90 minutes she spent speaking from the bench,

painstakingly detailed some of the testimony she heard during that marathon hearing yesterday. She spoke about

how regular Chicagoans had come out to exercise their First Amendment rights and found themselves

in one particular case staring down the barrel of the gun. She said that she could see no

reason for the actions of the Trump administration and said that they were just simply not credible when they told her that they had been sort of targeted by a coordinated violent mob.

Instead, she said it was just regular Chicagoans' moms in some case who had come out to protect the most vulnerable of their neighbors and friends.

Judge Ellis even at one point accused one of the senior Border Patrol officials, a man named Gregory Bovino,

of lying about their own tactics and the protesters' actions. What was that about?

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