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.

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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.

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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

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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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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. 

https://timesofsandiego.com/immigration/2025/11/30/immigration-detention-choice-asylum-or-deportation/ 

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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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