Vera Bergengruen
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Vera Bergengruen
@verambergen.bsky.social
Senior Correspondent at TIME Magazine
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Spotted in Mount Pleasant
August 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Also spotted in DC
August 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Seen on my block in Columbia Heights
August 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Earlier this week, federal agents parked outside a bilingual daycare center near Mount Pleasant, and made arrests. “The staff were terrified. Students were scared. Parents were scared."

Santos said her 5-year-old son “asked if Donald Trump was going to come into his school.”
August 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
ICE has parked outside daycares and churches. Nannies and children watched as ICE raided a business across from the Mount Pleasant library during story time. At Shrine of the Sacred Heart, an usher was arrested on his way to services. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
Trump’s ‘Law and Order’ Push in D.C. Looks a Lot Like an Immigration Raid
Nearly half of the arrests under the security crackdown have been of people in the country illegally.
www.wsj.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Trump said his security crackdown would focus on violent crime, but 44% of arrests in Trump's security crackdown in DC so far have been immigrants living here illegally.

Many were pulled from mopeds, construction sites, or stopped while selling fruit on the street
www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
Trump’s ‘Law and Order’ Push in D.C. Looks a Lot Like an Immigration Raid
Nearly half of the arrests under the security crackdown have been of people in the country illegally.
www.wsj.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM