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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...

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

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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.

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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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.

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.

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

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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 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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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:

‘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.

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 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.

“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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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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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.

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

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.

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

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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.

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/...

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.”

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Va. appeals court says Arlington can eliminate single-family-only zoning The Northern Virginia county’s push for more “missing middle” housing had divided its residents and was paused in response to a lawsuit from some homeowners.

Arlington's missing middle policy ending single-family-only zoning was effectively reinstated Tuesday by a Virginia panel of judges, who ruled that homeowners suing over that effort did not adequately take real estate developers to court, too.

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Analysis | 5 takeaways from Virginia’s primary election results The political spotlight this year is on Virginia, which kicked off its closely-watched statewide election cycle with primaries that set November’s ballot.

Analysis by Teo Armus | The political spotlight this year is on Virginia, which kicked off its statewide election cycle on Tuesday.

Here’s what stood out as November’s matchups came into view:

His great-grandfather enshrined birthright citizenship. Norman Wong is trying to save it. One hundred and twenty-seven years after Wong Kim Ark’s Supreme Court victory enshrined birthright citizenship, Norman Wong is fighting to protect that legacy.

His great-grandfather enshrined birthright citizenship. His mother was jailed in WWII internment. Now, Norman Wong has become an unlikely spokesman in the fight for American citizenship, with its presumed guarantees of civil rights, free speech and due process. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Trump shut out refugees but is making White South Africans an exception About 60 Afrikaners are set to be routed through Virginia next week, documents show, in a notable exception to President Donald Trump’s suspension of refugee admissions.

The Trump administration ground refugee admissions to a halt, suspending a program that lets in thousands of people fleeing war or political persecution -- except now for one group: White South Africans. @teoarmus.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...