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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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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Although most of think of Minneapolis for the center of the immigration raids, more and more people are being apprehended daily by roving patrols in the greater Los Angeles area. Almost weekly, apprehension numbers continue to increase.

Memo Torres of critically acclaimed, LA Taco shares his findings with John Carlos Frey.  Memo is the Director of Engagement and a multimedia journalist. He is also the host of the Daily Memo which chronicles apprehensions by ICE and Border Patrol throughout Southern California. Almost daily, he details the raids by reporting a list of places where people have been apprehended, if available he reads names and sometimes the tactics used during apprehension. The Daily Memo has become a chilling account of the human toll for the ongoing immigration raids.

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https://lataco.com/

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John Carlos Frey chronicles the numerous violent crimes committed by ICE and Border Patrol agents across the country.

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https://www.calonews.com/featured-topics/immigration/new-report-details-dozens-of-federal-immigration-agents-with-violent-records/article_1c93204d-e97f-44a3-a42e-f6790df6ae3c.html

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

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Over a year ago, a prosecutor for ICE in immigration court was exposed by journalists for having a racially charged X account. The exposé seemed to spark an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security but now he is back on the job and the racist X account is still active.

Steven Monacelli is the journalist who broke this story. He is an award winning investigative journalist focusing on extremism, disinformation, social movements and the influence of dark money in politics. His work has appeared in countless publications such as Rolling Stone and The Daily Beast. He's currently a special investigative correspondent for The Texas Observer. Steven discusses his findings and to his surprise, why the ICE employee is back on the job.

https://www.texasobserver.org/author/steven-monacelli/

https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-racist-account-back-at-immigration-court/

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Although most of us understand the immigration raids have been occurring in Minneapolis, apprehensions continue across the country and actively in Southern and Central California. On the podcast is Patricia Solorio, she's the associate director at the fund for Santa Barbara, which is a nontraditional community foundation that supports organizations and groups working for progressive social change in Santa Barbara County. Patricia and the Foundation have funded advocates in support of the most affected by the raids. She discusses the continuous immigration enforcement challenges in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties of California.

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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.

https://www.calonews.com/

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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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