JT Cestkowski
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Journalist 📹 | Wisconsinite 🧀 | Covering economic justice 💰 | Reporting for @StatusCoup
Madison, WI
Joined May 2017
PERSONAL NEWS I’m @StatusCoup’s new on-the-ground reporter! I’ve already been tear-gassed in Chicago and interviewed an inflatable pink shark at the Omaha No Kings protest. And I’m working on a lot more.
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Initial reactions from Chicagoland protesters and organizers is skepticism and fear that Border Patrol could be replaced by troops after the Supreme Court weighs in on the order blocking National Guard nationalization in Illinois.
BREAKING — The Trump administration has made plans for Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and many of his agents to leave Chicago as early as this week, after weeks of controversial arrests and clashes, 3 US officials tell CBS News. W/ @NicoleSganga. https://t.co/n3H3j5S2nt
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BREAKING — The Trump administration has made plans for Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and many of his agents to leave Chicago as early as this week, after weeks of controversial arrests and clashes, 3 US officials tell CBS News. W/ @NicoleSganga. https://t.co/n3H3j5S2nt
cbsnews.com
Some Border Patrol agents could soon leave the Chicago area, after taking a leading role in the Trump administration's controversial immigration operations in the nation's third-largest city,...
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The latest update on conditions inside Broadview's ICE facility, where a magistrate judge is planning a visit this week. The Trump administration says it's "compliant" with an order to provide phone services so detainees may communicate with counsel. Plaintiffs "have concerns."
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Cmdr. Gregory Bovino invited IL governor JB Pritzker to join him and his team in Little Village tomorrow. On Saturday, his team reportedly arrested 9 people there, 8 of them were US citizens, according to DHS.
@BlockClubCHI Proud to report there were no illegal aliens in the park this morning. Readers should've BEAN there, ha ha. Expect to see Border Patrol and ICE in and around Chicago today. Looks like the " No ICE" signs in Chicago didn't weather the storm ❄️. 🫘 🫘 🫘. 🇺🇸 🇺🇲.
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JUST IN: The Trump administration asks the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to stay Judge Sara Ellis' preliminary injunction restricting the use of force against protesters and journalists in Chicago. Full motion here: https://t.co/wSwGEcAHdb
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JUST IN: As promised, the Trump administration is appealing Judge Sara Ellis’ granting of a preliminary injunction last week that restricts the use of force by immigration agents in “Operation Midway Blitz”
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NEW In video I obtained for @StatusCoup, you can hear what sounds like the gunshots Homeland Security claims were fired at their agents in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. People here are afraid federal agents are stirring up more violence. Story to come.
Today, U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations near 26th Street and Kedzie Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, when an unknown male driving a black Jeep fired shots at agents and fled the scene. An unknown number of agitators also threw a paint can and
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Report of shots fired at federal agents during immigration enforcement in Little Village under investigation DEVELOPING story from @MoSamra16 w/ @cindylu_7 and Tom Schuba:
chicago.suntimes.com
The Chicago Police Department responded to a call of shots fired at federal agents in the 2500 block of South Kedzie Avenue Saturday morning, police said.
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I’ll note that the Christian Right has been conspicuously absent from prayer groups outside of Broadview.
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.”
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“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.”
blockclubchicago.org
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after...
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A Waukegan councilman was briefly detained by U.S. immigration agents on Friday, and he says the agents drew their guns on him while he was sitting in his car with his hands raised. “My life flashed before my eyes,” said Ald. Juan Martinez. https://t.co/bbFi79j1uf
chicagotribune.com
As soon as he felt he felt he was safe, Martinez said his first call was to Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham.
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JUST IN: The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to stop — by 9:30 tonight — the court orders requiring payment of full November SNAP benefits.
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"GET THE F*CK OUTTA HERE!" - A mom whose car was blocked by federal agents was FURIOUS when the masked men pointed guns at her two sons. Status Coup's @JonFarinaPhoto captured Greg Bovino's agents conducting ICE raids around the Chicago area abducting and attempting to abduct
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CBP has been hitting Skokie, outside of Chicago, hard today. At 10:45 today, they jumped out of their vehicles and arrested a man on Lincoln Ave.
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Ellis is reading the terms of the injunction now, saying deploying any chemical spray, tear gas, or other less lethal weapon is BANNED "unless such force is necessary to stop the immediate threat of physical harm to another."
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///BREAKING/// A federal judge is issuing an injunction putting more permanent use-of-force restrictions on immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” saying top government officials lied in their testimony about threats that protesters posed
chicagotribune.com
A federal judge in Chicago issued a sweeping injunction that puts more permanent restrictions on the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz.”
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There are plenty of people I have talked to who think going to anti-ICE protests is dangerous because of how agents are treating people.
Ellis notes people being tear gassed, staring down the barrel of a gun and being "slammed to the ground with their head bashed into the street." "All of that would cause a reasonable person to think twice about exercising their fundamental constitutional rights."
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A federal judge is stepping in to try and put some guardrails on the federal government's brutality in Chicago.
JUST IN: Judge Sara Ellis makes clear she is indeed issuing an injunction against the government restricting the use of force in "Operation Midway Blitz." She says they've repeatedly violated her TRO and "this conduct shows no signs of stopping." Details to come
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U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just took the bench. She's expected to rule on a request for a preliminary injunction governing the use of force by federal agents in Chicago.
Good morning. Back in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, who is expected to rule in 20 minutes on the use of force by federal agents against protesters and journalists in Chicago.
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BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless $SBUX finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting. If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on Nov 13– the company's busiest day of the year.
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