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Till Eckert
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investigative journalist @correctiv.org • currently Burns Fellow with @propublica.org • Signal: tilleckert.90 🔦 tilleckert.com
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Rachel Levinson-Waldman @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social · 1d
Great piece from @dell.bsky.social at @wired.com about ICE's newest foray into social media monitoring: the agency is putting out feelers for contractors who can do on-site, open source intel 24/7 for ICE's Targeting Operations Division (TOD). 1/ www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d
Although border czar Tom Homan has repeatedly said he recused himself from any “involvement, discussion, input, or decision of any future government contracts,” ProPublica obtained records showing he has had at least some involvement in contracting conversations.
Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign
A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives sa...
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 1d
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 1d
That immigration agent who threw a woman to the ground, prompting DHS to declare his conduct "unacceptable"?

He's back at the courthouse.

And DHS still won't tell us his name.
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 1d
I recently reported on an ICE officer who was publicly reprimanded and “relieved of his duties” after shoving a woman to the ground in an NYC immigration court. Well, he’s back.

DHS did not respond to a request for comment.

Original story: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Photos: Carol Guzy
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 1d
I continue to report on the issue. If you have any tips, reach out via Signal: tilleckert.90
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 1d
Update: He‘s back.
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 1d
I recently reported on an ICE officer who was publicly reprimanded and “relieved of his duties” after shoving a woman to the ground in an NYC immigration court. Well, he’s back.

DHS did not respond to a request for comment.

Original story: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Photos: Carol Guzy
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 1d
I recently reported on an ICE officer who was publicly reprimanded and “relieved of his duties” after shoving a woman to the ground in an NYC immigration court. Well, he’s back.

DHS did not respond to a request for comment.

Original story: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Photos: Carol Guzy
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 4d
"Salisbury’s messages with a close-knit circle of security officials discussed (…) the need to reinstate an ICE agent who had been fired for throwing a woman to the ground in New York City (…)."
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Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show
A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d
In July, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
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Valerie Gonzalez @valontheborder.bsky.social · 4d
JUST IN: ICE didn’t say how much migrants would get or when the offer would take effect, but The AP obtained an email to migrant shelters saying children 14 years of age and older would get $2,500 each. Children were given 24 hours to respond.

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Trump administration offers migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to home countries
The Trump administration is offering migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to their home countries, dangling a new incentive in efforts to persuade people to self-deport.
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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 6d
Scenes from Immigration Court in New York’s Federal Plaza: @tilleckert.com spent two weeks reporting from the twelfth-floor hallways, where ICE agents have had charged encounters with immigrants and reporters. Interview with @riddhisetty.bsky.social www.cjr.org/getting-the-...
Scenes from immigration court in New York’s Federal Plaza.
Till Eckert spent two weeks reporting from the twelfth-floor hallways, where ICE agents have had charged encounters with immigrants and reporters.
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404 Media @404media.co · 7d
BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media.

🔗 www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 7d
8/ Governor Kathy Hochul just posted this statement on X.
Masked ICE agents shoved and injured journalists today at Federal Plaza. One reporter left on a stretcher. This abuse of law-abiding immigrants and the reporters telling their stories must end. What the hell are we doing here?
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 7d
7/ That officer appears to be reinstated, but assigned to “another floor or site,” security personnel told me. I did not see him at the courthouse Friday, yesterday or today.

DHS did not respond to our requests for comment.
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 7d
6/ The new incident happened just days after an ICE agent shoved Monica Moreta-Galarza to the ground at the same courthouse last Thursday. In a rare move, DHS had reprimanded the officer, calling his behaviour “unacceptable.” bsky.app/profile/till...
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 12d
1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 7d
5/ This appeared to be a case of an “elevator detention,” as court observers call it—a rare tactic in which ICE agents follow individuals into the elevator and arrest them there, rather than taking them to the stairwell as usual.
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 7d
4/ Some ICE officers on the scene reacted emotionally to the incident. One said: “What the fuck?” Another told me: “This is a real problem.“
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 7d
3/ An agent then appeared to shove people away from the elevator entrance, which led to Elibol falling to the ground, as footage captured by photographer Stephanie Keith shows.
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 7d
2/ Journalist L. Vural Elibol and other photographers apparently wanted to understand why ICE agents were following a woman into a public elevator. As they tried to enter the elevator, a supervisor from the ICE team at the New York Field Office shouted, “Get out the fucking elevator!”
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 7d
1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.
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Jesse Coburn @jessecoburn.bsky.social · 8d
New: four million people could be forced to leave public housing and other federally assisted housing under new plans from the Trump administration, according to experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by @propublica.org.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 9d
Ya know, I'm reminded today of a story I did re Eric Adams controlling a secretive, abusive NYPD unit

The connex was so tight, the mayor had access to a *live-feed* of the unit's body-cams

“The unit effectively reported directly to City Hall," a source told me

www.propublica.org/article/eric...
How Eric Adams Has Backed a Secretive NYPD Unit Ridden With Abuses
After NYPD officials warned about a unit’s aggressive policing, the mayor boosted the team led by his allies. “The unit effectively reported directly to City Hall,” a former police official said.
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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 10d
Till, an investigative reporter from Germany, arrived in the U.S. just eight weeks ago for a fellowship with @propublica.org.

“I’d been alarmed by videos of masked ICE agents sweeping immigrants off the street, scenes I never thought I’d see in the United States.”
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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 10d
My @propublica.org colleague @tilleckert.com filmed the ICE officer who shoved a distraught mother to the floor inside a New York courthouse.

ICE says the officer has been “relieved of current duties as we conduct a full investigation.”
I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman to the Floor Inside a New York Courthouse
I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive beha...
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 11d
Here's what happened after we reported on the incident. bsky.app/profile/till...
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 11d
New: The video I filmed of an ICE agent shoving a woman to the ground at 26 Federal Plaza, a New York City immigration courthouse, went viral. Then, in a rare move, the government publicly reprimanded the officer, calling his actions “unacceptable.”
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman to the Floor Inside a New York Courthouse
I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive beha...
www.propublica.org
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