MALDEF (The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) President and General Counsel, Thomas Saenz discusses his thoughts about why we are seeing a targeted effort to remove Latinos from the US. It's not just the deportation raids but a systematic approach to marginalize and disenfranchise the fastest growing voting block - Latinos. Saenz, with strong evidence believes the political right is trying to disempower the Latino community and as a means to win elections and keep political power. the immigration raids are a means to do just that.

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On the podcast today is investigative reporter Lillian Perlmutter. She is an award winning journalist covering migration, human rights, labor rights and social movements. Her work has been published in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Foreign Policy and the LA Times. She is currently an immigration reporter for the Times of San Diego and NEWSWELL, where she covers local and federal immigration enforcement policies. On the podcast she discusses her most recent article, "Migrants face a choice: Wait years for a hearing, or agree to be deported now" about the maze of confusion and hardship while in a US detention facility. 

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John Carlos Frey selects three news stories you probably haven't heard of for the week of December 29, 2025. 

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Sara Van Hofwegen  is the managing director of legal access programs at the Acacia Center for Justice and speaks candidly about the way minors and children are being treated by the Trump administration throughout the apprehension and deportation process.

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Todd Pomerleau is a prominent immigration and criminal defense attorney based in Boston, Massachusetts. He specializes in deportation defense, post-conviction motions, and complex immigration litigation. He has won cases before the supreme court and most recently has been involved in high profile immigration cases including Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, the Babson college student who was detained by ICE at the airport on her way to visit family for Thanksgiving. His firm is also handling the case of Bruna Caroline Ferreira who is the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew.

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John Carlos Frey shares personal anecdotes about the need to remain vigilant when confronting lies perpetrated by the Trump administration. He uses real time stories of deceit to protect government over telling the truth. This episode contains a sobering holiday message and how to react to an ever increasing onslaught of misinformation about immigrants. 

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James Holeman and Abbey Carpenter of Battalion Search and Rescue (BSAR) comb the deserts of the American Southwest looking for lost or deceased migrants. They work to rescue any people they find in peril and help to reunite family members with the human remains of their lost loved ones. BSAR is a volunteer lead organization performing humanitarian work, free of charge. They claim, even with the Trump administration declaring that the border has been sealed and migration has stopped, people are still coming across the border. https://battalionsar.com/ 

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Episcopal priests, Rev. Francisco Garcia and Rev. Jaime Edwards-Acton discuss their faith in the context of the current immigration raids. Rev. Jaime had 14 members of his congregation swept up in the Los Angeles ICE raids this past June 2025. Both have created a mission called, Sacred Resistance that empowers communities of all faiths to seek justice through love and faith. The primary focus of their movement is to provide sanctuary for the most marginalized people amongst us. 

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Denise Florez, editor, Jacqueline Garcia, senior reporter and Brenda Verano, community staff reporter from the Southern California and Arizona digital publication, Caló News joins the podcast to discuss whats going in the region.

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Nancy Meza is one of the LA activists instrumental in the Home Depot protests that had protestors buying and returning ICE scrapers that eventually shut down the store.

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