2021年9月4日 · Secretive CBP Counterterrorism Teams Interrogated 180,000 U.S. Citizens Over Two-Year Period Records from an ongoing FOIA lawsuit shed new light on the operations of CBP’s Tactical Terrorism ...

2023年9月14日 · Our lawsuit demands information about these CBP units, called “Tactical Terrorism Response Teams” (“TTRTs”), including how these teams operate, how their officers are trained, and whether the guidelines that govern their …

2021年9月7日 · While CBP would not elaborate on its intelligence gathering, much of what it collects goes into a massive database it administers called the Automated Targeting System. The TTRT units often act on requests from CBP’s analysts to interrogate certain individuals at airports and land borders to gather more information about them and their ...

2019年12月19日 · He claimed he was never given any reason for the detention, other than having been given a receipt from a Global Entry kiosk marked with the letters "TTRT." According to the ACLU, Gal was...

2017年9月26日 · CBP works with the trade community through the Customs -Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program, which is a public-private partnership program wherein members of the trade community volunteer to adopt tighter security measures throughout their international supply chains in exchange for enhanced trade facilitation, such as ...

We made six recommendations to improve CBP’s controls on placing and removing lookouts and sharing U.S. citizens’ sensitive information with foreign countries. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials placed lookouts on U.S. travelers suspected of potential criminal activity.

2023年7月3日 · Given the limited public information on TTRT’s operations, this study explores the matter through a case study of Abdikadir Mohamed’s 2017 encounter with the unit, his subsequent immigration proceedings, and the FOIA lawsuit filed …

2019年12月18日 · The ACLU filed a lawsuit Wednesday calling for CBP to release records about its Tactical Terrorism Response Teams, which the civil rights group described as “highly secretive units” which operate...

2019年4月2日 · In addition, CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Teams (TTRT) are deployed at U.S. POEs and consist of CBP officers who are specially trained in counterterrorism response. TTRT officers utilize information derived from targeting and …

2021年9月4日 · “Within 100 miles of any U.S. land or coastal boundary, CBP can detain, question, search, and seize property with fewer restrictions than law enforcement in the interior of the country,” the Intercept recalls, adding that there are indications that some of the Tactical Terrorism Response Teams’ targeting has appeared “politically or ...