The Raid

Eunisses Hernandez is a native of Highland Park in Los Angeles and the daughter of Mexican immigrants. She is the City Council Member for the 1st District in Los Angeles. In July of 2025, her district became an iconic flashpoint of the immigration raids as federal agents in tactical gear carrying firearms moved in on a region called, MacArthur Park. The federal agents were all walking in a straight line, side by side, some on horseback, as news helicopters hovered above. Her district is also home to Operation Trojan Horse where ICE agents hid in the back of a Penske moving van as they approached a Home Depot parking lot to apprehend day laborers. Council Member Hernandez speaks candidly about the ongoing immigration raids. 

https://www.eunissesforthepeople.com/ 

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Jack Duffy is a college student and bagpipe player who found his voice by bringing his bagpipes to ICE raid protests in Los Angeles, Oregon and San Francisco. The haunting yet powerful instrument is a call to action for the 21 year-old who strongly disapproves of the ongoing immigration raids and is willing to face off with law enforcement and even be arrested.  In his conversation with John Carlos Frey, Jack discusses how he got started playing the bagpipes at protests, what they signify and how his fellow college students feel about immigrants and the America they are inheriting.

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A recent economic impact study taking a look at the after effects of the immigration raids in Los Angeles this past Summer chronicles the devastating and negative results on the local economy. John Carlos Frey crunches the numbers. 

https://opportunity.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/LAEDCxDEO-Economic-Impacts-of-Federal-Immigration-Enforcement.pdf 

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Journalists from The Marshall Project, Shannon Heffernan and Anna Flagg discuss their most recent findings about children in immigration detention. According to the journalism duo's research, children in detention has spiked six times under Trump.

John Carlos Frey discusses their work and the current state of family detention.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/ice-kids-in-detention-numbers

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Dr. Manuel Pastor discusses the socioeconomic effects of the immigration raids with John Carlos Frey. Dr. Pastor is a distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He currently directs the Equity Research Institute at USC. Pastor holds an economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Pastor’s research has generally focused on issues of the economic, environmental and social conditions facing low-income urban communities – and the social movements seeking to change those realities.

For over 30 years, Professor Manuel Pastor has been a trailblazer in scholastic activism, examining critical issues like the 1992 riots, economic disinvestment, and social stratification. His work bridges academia and community action, driving meaningful change.

https://dornsife.usc.edu/eri/manuel-pastor/

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The Administration has pushed to deport migrants to third countries, not their countries of origin, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.  In some cases per migrant costs to El Salvador, Ghana or Palau can cost upward of a million dollars each. John Carlos Frey breaks down a recent US Senate report detailing the shocking price tag.

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https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/%28FINAL%20-%20web%29%20At%20What%20Cost%20-%20Inside%20the%20Trump%20Administration's%20Secret%20Deportation%20Deals_SFRC%20Minority%20Report_Feb%202026%200213.pdf

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George Takei is an American actor, author, and activist. He's known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS enterprise in the Star Trek franchise and Galactus in the Superhero Squad Show.

On December 7, 1941 Japan attacked Pear Harbor and for looking like the enemy, Japanese Americans in the United States were then considered enemy combatants or enemy aliens. As a result, the U.S. government forcibly removed approximately 125,000 people from their homes and relocated them to prison camps around the country. George Takei was four years old when he and his family were forced from their home in Los Angeles to several different internment camps during their incarceration. He shares his personal story of detention and compares the four years he spent imprisoned by the federal government to the current immigration raids.

The entire podcast is in two parts.

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George Takei is an American actor, author, and activist. He's known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS enterprise in the Star Trek franchise and Galactus in the Superhero Squad Show.

On December 7, 1941 Japan attacked Pear Harbor and for looking like the enemy,  Japanese Americans in the United States were then considered enemy combatants or enemy aliens.

As a result, the U.S. government forcibly removed approximately 125,000 people from their homes and relocated them to prison camps around the country. George Takei was four years old when he and his family were forced from their home in Los Angeles to several different internment camps during their incarceration. He shares his personal story of detention and compares the four years he spent imprisoned by the federal government to the current immigration raids.

The entire podcast is in two parts.

https://theraidpodcast.org/

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For the week of February 9, 2026 John Carlos Frey documents the treatment of children in immigrant detention facilities. He exposes the violations of norms and law and exposes an inhumane tactic of using children as a deterrent strategy against future migration.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters

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Brandon Garrison is US citizen residing in Florida. His wife, Gabriela came to the United States legally, she has no criminal record. According to Brandon, she was illegally detained in October, 2025 and has been in immigrant detention for the past 5 months. She is eligible for US citizenship through her marriage to Brandon but the Federal government is barring them from completing the necessary paperwork.

Brandon has drained his savings, left his work and is trying to keep his family together as he fights this case and his wife faces imminent deportation.

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