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Immigration And Customs Enforcement Receives Tips At Call Center In Williston

开云体育 | By Mitch Wertlieb,
Ari Snider
Published July 9, 2018 at 8:43 AM EDT
Protesters outside of the ICE complex in Williston. The agency operates a tip call center out of the facility that gets call from all over the country.
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Protesters outside of the ICE complex in Williston in June. The agency operates a tip call center out of the facility that gets calls from all over the country.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has roots here in Vermont, with a tip call center for suspected undocumented people located near a shopping center complex in Williston. VTDigger reporter Elizabeth Hewitt

"It's been located there since 2003, and there's a couple different functions of ICE that are located in Williston and also around the state," explained Hewitt. "In this particular story, I was really focusing on this tip line that is this sort of hotline for the entire country."

Listen to an extended conversation with Hewitt about her reporting above.
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Mitch Wertlieb
A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.
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Ari Snider
Ari Snider was the 2018 summer newsroom intern at 开云体育 Radio.
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