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nytimes reporter | tech, special projects | mhkeller@{nytimes,protonmail}.com, github/mhkeller | adjunct at CUJ | mhkeller.01 on Signal
Thanks for reading. It was a big team effort.
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The immigration crackdown comes at a real cost, investigators told me. Here's one particularly poignant example I learned about: Videos have surfaced online of an unidentified child currently being violently sexually abused but agents don't have enough time to investigate and have lost a key contact
November 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Based on data we got in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, DHS statistics show that the agents have worked about 33 percent fewer hours on child exploitation than is typical and at least five times as many hours on immigration enforcement.
November 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reposted by michael h keller
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Reposted by michael h keller
Hamilton: “The president’s power is unreviewable.”
October 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
You're forgetting the crucial role played by the magic gloves that control the video. Why have precogs if you can't do the hand-wave rewind bit?
August 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
www.esafety.gov.au
August 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM