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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: Trump's 30-day crime emergency in DC is over.

But DHS agents are still joining DC police patrols & roll calls, even though DC law bars police from helping fed immigration agents.

The result? Immigrants are ending up in ICE custody.

w/ Emma Uber

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Trump’s D.C. crime emergency is over. Immigration officers are still patrolling with D.C. police.

The Washington Post reviewed photos and videos of at least half a dozen incidents since Sept. 10. They show D.C. police officers with masked agents in vests labeled HSI for Homeland Security Investiga...

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 22d

Claudia Sheinbaum’s government doesn’t want to ban narcocorridos. They want to compete with them

@teoarmus.bsky.social reports from CDMX

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To fight the narcos, Mexico tries a new approach: A song contest

A Eurovision-style competition to counter narcocorridos, popular songs that romanticize the drug trade, draws viewers — and skeptics.

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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 23d

The Washington Post can't claim to defend free speech while firing Karen Attiah for exercising hers.

The Post should be a newsroom that promotes the freedom of ideas, speech and the press.

Washington Post Guild @postguild.bsky.social · 23d

Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah

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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 26d

NEW: ICE has arrested so many people in Trump's D.C. crackdown that it's crowding the agency’s Northern Virginia processing site, lawyers say, creating "dangerous" conditions in a site not meant to keep people overnight.

w/ Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff & @marialuisapaul.bsky.social

ICE holding facilities overcrowded amid surge in immigration arrests

Immigration agents have arrested so many people in their D.C. crackdown that they are crowding the agency’s processing site in Northern Virginia, lawyers say.

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Arelis R. Hernández @arelisrhdz.bsky.social · 27d

told lovingly and beautifully by the brilliant @teoarmus.bsky.social

Julia Gelatt @juliagelatt.bsky.social · 27d

Wapo article does a good job covering two realities: How deeply watching a parents‘ immigration arrest affects kids, and how DC residents are organizing “walking buses” and neighborhood lookouts to help kids with immigrant parents get safely to school. wapo.st/3VNYZ08

They watched ICE detain their dad. Now D.C. neighbors escort them to school.

Immigrant neighborhoods across the District have organized “walking school buses” to shuttle kids to classes during President Donald Trump’s federalization of D.C. police.

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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 26d

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Julia Gelatt @juliagelatt.bsky.social · 27d

Wapo article does a good job covering two realities: How deeply watching a parents‘ immigration arrest affects kids, and how DC residents are organizing “walking buses” and neighborhood lookouts to help kids with immigrant parents get safely to school. wapo.st/3VNYZ08

They watched ICE detain their dad. Now D.C. neighbors escort them to school.

Immigrant neighborhoods across the District have organized “walking school buses” to shuttle kids to classes during President Donald Trump’s federalization of D.C. police.

wapo.st

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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · Sep 5

New tonight: The Virginia Court of Appeals appears to have reinstated Arlington’s “missing middle” plan, reversing an order from a circuit court judge that put a stop to the EHO policy.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · Aug 21

Amid deportations and fear, Mexicans in the U.S. are sending less money home, squeezing businesses, impacting jobs and leaving homes half-built – conditions that typically drive people to migrate @teoarmus.bsky.social and Karla Gachet report from San Bartolomé Quialana

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Amid crackdown, Mexicans are sending less money home. It’s leaving a mark.

Falling remittances are squeezing businesses, impacting jobs and leaving homes half-built – conditions that typically drive people to migrate.

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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · Aug 22

NEW: Amid Trump's immigration crackdown, Mexicans are sending less money home. The drop is squeezing businesses, cutting jobs and leaving homes half-built – conditions that often drive people to migrate.

On the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com, with stunning photos by Karla Gachet

Amid crackdown, Mexicans are sending less money home. It’s leaving a mark.

The drop in remittances is squeezing businesses, impacting jobs and leaving homes half-built – conditions that typically drive people to migrate.

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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · Aug 21

W/ Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, @emilydavies.bsky.social, @jonathanbaran.bsky.social & @mariana-alfaro.bsky.social

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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · Aug 21

NEW: As immigrant delivery drivers started using mopeds, D.C. police pushed greater enforcement of their vehicles.

Now, amid Trump’s federal takeover, ICE is joining their patrols — and detained at least 11 of those drivers.

ICE is joining D.C. police patrols. Moped drivers are an early target.

D.C. police’s efforts to enforce moped laws resulted mostly in food delivery drivers’ immediate release. That has changed.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Aug 17

Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning.

The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc

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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · Aug 10

NEW in @washingtonpost.com: As Panama has been caving in to Trump's demands and shifting away from China, not even a historic monument is being spared from this geopolitical fight.

My latest, on Central America's largest ethnic Chinese community -- now caught in the middle:

The U.S., China, the Panama Canal — and the community caught in the middle

Pressured by President Donald Trump, Panama pivots toward Washington, raising concern in Central America’s largest Chinese community.

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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · Aug 5

On the front page of today’s @washingtonpost.com: What 16 of the migrants deported by the U.S. to El Salvador’s CECOT experienced in that notorious mega prison

w/ Sam Schmidt, Helena Carpio @marialuisapaul.bsky.social @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social @asteckelberg.bsky.social

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants

Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

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María Luisa Paúl @marialuisapaul.bsky.social · Jul 31

“Welcome to hell”

We spoke to 16 Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. This is the most complete view yet of the conditions they faced — which, some experts said, may violate conventions against torture.

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‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the mega prison where the U.S. deported migrants

Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · Jul 31

NEW: In a time of travel bans and visa fees, Trump is moving to let Argentine tourists into the US without a visa — a political gift to his friend Javier Milei.

But a State Dept cable acknowledges that Argentina doesn’t meet a key requirement for that exemption.

w/ @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

In move to lift Argentina visa restrictions, Trump rewards Milei’s friendship

Argentina does not meet a key requirement for the U.S. visa waiver program, a State Department cable acknowledges.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jul 23

Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer.

“I practically felt like an animal,” González told The Post.

U.S. deportee, freed from Salvadoran prison, describes ‘horror movie’

Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Jul 23

Washington Post: U.S. Deportee, Freed from Salvadoran Prison, Describes ‘Horror Movie’

By @teoarmus.bsky.social, Samantha Schmidt and @arelisrhdz.bsky.social

"Cells of nine to 15 people with metal benches for beds — thin mattresses were brought in for photographs and then taken away." Gift link!

U.S. deportee, freed from Salvadoran prison, describes ‘horror movie’

Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer.

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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · Jul 23

Julio González Jr. thought he was being deported back to Venezuela. Instead, the plane landed in El Salvador.

“The horror movie started there,” he said.

What the Venezuelans freed from CECOT experienced at the world’s largest prison, w/ Samantha Schmidt, Helena Carpio & @arelisrhdz.bsky.social

U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie’

Three Venezuelans, released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said they were repeatedly beaten and denied access to lawyers.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · Jul 17

Cristosal has relied on U.S. funding to document detainee abuse, investigate corruption and advocate for critics targeted by the Salvadoran government. Trump cut their funding; now the rights organization is fleeing the country

@teoarmus.bsky.social reports

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Its U.S. funding cut, rights group flees Bukele’s El Salvador

Cristosal, wary of newly restrictive laws and the arrest of one of its staffers, follows dozens of journalists, lawyers and rights advocates into exile.

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Arelis R. Hernández @arelisrhdz.bsky.social · Jul 14

Surprising and illuminating story from @teoarmus.bsky.social about immigrants increasingly sending their savings home as their futures in the U.S. dim: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Facing a crackdown, Central American immigrants are sending more money home

The Trump administration is set to implement a tax on those payments through the president’s landmark legislation that he recently signed into law.

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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · Jul 10

Statement from the Arlington County Board re: latest missing middle ruling:

“The Court of Appeals chose to hold a hearing following their June 24 order. That hearing was held Monday, July 8. The previous order was withdrawn pending the issuance of a new order after this week’s hearing.”

Margaret Barthel @margaretbarthel.bsky.social · Jul 9

Virginia Court of Appeals seems ... confused? ... about this procedural matter in the Arlington 'missing middle' lawsuit, about whether or not the trial court judge should have allowed a developer to join as a party to the original lawsuit against the zoning ordinance.

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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · Jun 29

All good! Thanks so much for saying hi and for the kind skeet

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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · Jun 26

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