A discussion with journalists, Amairani Hernandez and Michelle Zacarias from Los Angeles and American Southwest based digital publication, CALO News. The discussion focuses on Gregory Bovino the head of Border Patrol operations in Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte and recently Minneapolis now being moved back to his post as sector chief in El Centro, CA. Topics also include an increase in Border Patrol lead raids in Southern California.

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Eunice Cho is senior counsel at the ACLU National Prison Project. She's a nationally recognized expert and litigator on issues pertaining to immigration detention, including access to counsel. She has served as lead and co-counsel in numerous cases to protect the rights of immigrant detainees, including people held at the cruelly named Alligator Alcatraz detention facility and the Guantanamo Naval Base.

She recently co-authored a letter to ICE describing the conditions of pregnant women in detention describing violation of protocol and human rights abuses.  

On the podcast she discusses the current state of immigrant detention and her concerns about the escalation of new detention facilities and the decreasing state of care for detainees.

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/pregnant-and-postpartum-women-face-neglect-and-abuse-in-ice-detention

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The ICE riads have been indiscriminate and are racially profiling. In the past few months, Native Americans some also referred to as First Nations People have been detained in Iowa, Arizona and Minnesota. Tribal Identification has not been accepted in some cases even though all Native peoples are US Citizens. Gabriel Galanda sits down with John Carlos Frey to discuss the current immigration raids and how Natives are being affected. Gabe is an indigenous rights attorney and the managing lawyer at Galanda Broadman. His practice focuses on representing indigenous nations, businesses and citizens.  He advocates against tribal and citizenship rights violations, as well as other domestic indigenous human rights abuses, including law enforcement and violence

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https://www.galandabroadman.com/profiles/galanda

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Immigrant deaths in detention so far in this new year are on a record pace. John Carlos Frey uses ICE's own data to highlight the tragic loss of life in Americas' ever-growing immigrant detention population.

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Silky Shau the executive director of Detention Watch Network. It's a US based national coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to abolishing the immigration detention system through collective advocacy, education and grassroots organizing. Detention Watch Network aims to end the detention and deportation of immigrants and promote racial equity in immigration policy. Silky discusses the history of immigrant detention and the unprecedented escalation during the Trump era.

https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/

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@silkys13

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Outspoken columnist and reporter for the the Los Angeles Times, Gustavo Arellano sits down with John Carlos Frey for a wide ranging discussion on the immigration raids, white supremacy, government over-reach and the state of media today. Arellano brings a strong Latino perspective to the conversation giving insight and understanding into a world few get to see.

https://www.latimes.com/people/gustavo-arellano

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John Carlos Frey address the escalation of immigration raids and little reported news of the week of January 12. He encourages everyone to believe what they are seeing and hearing as not being normal immigration enforcement.

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Jasmine Garsd is an Argentine-American journalist. She is currently NPR's immigration correspondent and the host of The Last Cup. Throughout her reporting career she's focused extensively on women's issues and immigrant communities in America. On The Raid, she discusses the long term effects of the current immigration raids on the economy and upward mobility of the immigrant population most affected. Her recent piece on NPR is entitled, Fearing deportation, undocumented parents are preparing to leave their kids behind https://www.npr.org/2025/11/22/nx-s1-5616465/fearing-deportation-undocumented-parents-are-preparing-to-leave-their-kids-behind https://theraidpodcast.org/

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John Carlos Frey and former Border Patrol Agent, Jenn Budd discuss the release of the HBO documentary, "Critical Incident" based on Frey's reporting. HBO released the film after holding it for over a year when the information contained within paints a damming picture of US Border Patrol corruption at the highest level.

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-09/critical-incident-death-at-the-border-documentary-hbo

https://www.hbomax.com/movies/critical-incident-death-at-the-border/d2e96ad1-9694-4f57-bd16-eb7fcc536477

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On The Raid's weekly news update, John Carlos Frey focuses on the recent killing of Renee Nicole Good at the hands of an ICE agent in Minneapolis on January 7, 2025. Frey relates the tragic event to a system of deadly use of force and cover ups by the Department of Homeland Security for decades along the US Mexico border.

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https://washingtonmonthly.com/author/john-carlos-frey/

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