Can federal agents enter your home without a judge’s signature? And if they can’t… why do so many people believe they can? In this episode, Justin Yentes sits down with attorney Joey Hamby and former law enforcement officer Matt Browning to examine immigration enforcement through a constitutional lens. Instead of debating politics, the panel focuses on what the law says, breaking down the difference between administrative and judicial warrants, the constitutional protections of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and how due process is applied during civil immigration enforcement.

Through lived experience and case law the discussion explores how constitutional protections apply to homes, how consent can change the legal landscape, and why the difference between civil immigration enforcement and criminal law enforcement matters more than most people realize.

Key Topics

• The difference between administrative warrants and judicial warrants

• How the Fourth Amendment protects homes and effects

• Due process language that applies to “persons,” not just citizens

• The role of local law enforcement vs. federal immigration authorities

• How political narratives often obscure the legal framework

This episode is for anyone trying to understand immigration enforcement beyond the headlines and what the Constitution says about government authority and individual rights. It challenges assumptions from both sides of the political spectrum. The law surrounding immigration enforcement, due process, and federal authority is far more nuanced than the public conversation often allows. Be sure to follow the show and subscribe to the YouTube channel so you never miss an update!

Follow Justin Yentes: @truthbefoundpodcast 

Link to Justin’s agency, AIA: https://azprivateinvestigator.com/ 

Follow Joey Hamby: https://attorneysforfreedom.com/teammember/joey-hamby/

Follow Matt Browning: https://www.instagram.com/matsonbrowning/

Buy Matt’s book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-hate-next-door-undercover-within-the-new-face-of-white-supremacy-matson-browning/964fba3e77e39704?affiliate=1713&ean=9781728276632&next=t&singleFormat=true

The Constitution: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/

Fourth Amendment: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-4/

Fifth Amendment: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-5/

14th Amendment – Due Process & Equal Protection: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/

Before reacting to a viral clip or choosing a political side, there’s a more important question: what does the law say? Public debates about police use of force often begin with a short video, a headline, or a social media narrative, but the legal standards that govern these moments were defined decades ago by the Supreme Court and they’re far more complex than most public discussions suggest.

In this episode, Justin Yentes is joined by self-defense attorney Joey Hamby and former LEO Matt Browning to break down the constitutional framework behind use-of-force cases. They examine the landmark Supreme Court decisions that courts rely on when determining whether force was lawful and how those standards are applied in real-world situations where officers must make split-second decisions.

Key Topics:

• The three main factors courts use when analyzing police use of force

• How courts evaluate split-second decisions made in dangerous situations

• Why police training, departmental policy, and institutional accountability matter

• How media incentives and public outrage can distort complex legal cases

• Why transparency and fairness are essential to public trust in the justice system

This episode is for listeners who want to understand how the law evaluates use-of-force cases, rather than relying on viral clips or political commentary. It may challenge assumptions about how courts view police actions, how civil rights claims work, and why legal standards often look very different from the debates playing out online. Make sure that you follow the show and subscribe to the YouTube channel so you never miss an update!

Follow Justin Yentes: @truthbefoundpodcast  

Link to Justin’s agency, AIA: https://azprivateinvestigator.com/  

Follow Matt: https://www.instagram.com/matsonbrowning/

Matt Browning’s book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-hate-next-door-undercover-within-the-new-face-of-white-supremacy-matson-browning/964fba3e77e39704?affiliate=1713&ean=9781728276632&next=t&singleFormat=true

Joey Hamby, Attorney: https://attorneysforfreedom.com/teammember/joey-hamby/

Graham v. Connor: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/490/386/

Tennessee v. Garner: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/471/1/

Statue 42 U.S.C. § 1983 — Civil Action for Deprivation of Rights: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1983

Fourteenth Amendment: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/

The George Zimmerman trial about the death of Trayvon Martin reshaped national conversations on self-defense, race, and the legal system. Beyond the headlines, the case was far more complex. In this episode, Justin discusses it all with Dennis Root, a nationally recognized use-of-force expert and key witness in the Zimmerman trial. He breaks down the forensic evidence, media misconceptions, and what the public still gets wrong about high-profile cases like this.

Key Points:

• Understand what constitutes “reasonable” use of force in self-defense situations.

• What it feels like to fear for your life and how biology and training take over.

• Why expert witnesses are crucial in helping juries and judges interpret evidence.

• Stand Your Ground vs. Self-Defense: Learn how these legal concepts apply.

This episode cuts through the noise, offering a deeper understanding of use-of-force and self-defense, media distortion, and the complexities of cases that become national conversations. Listen now for a peek behind the curtain of this trial through the eyes of an expert witness.

Follow Justin and the pod: @truthbefoundpodcast   

Link to Justin’s agency, AIA: https://azprivateinvestigator.com/    

Dennis's website with links to his training courses and podcast: Force Concepts Training & Consulting - myfctc.com

What happens to the child left behind after an act of violence destroys an entire family? In this deeply personal episode, Justin Yentes is joined by Thaddeus Mellon and mitigation expert Doug Passon to explore the lives often left out of criminal justice narratives, the children who lose everything when one parent dies and another is sent to prison. Through Thaddeus’s lived experience of trauma, instability, foster care, and survival, the conversation reveals how loss, stigma, and system failures shape a child’s path long after the courtroom proceedings end.

At the same time, this episode examines the role of mitigation, empathy, and context in the pursuit of justice, asking whether the legal system can truly account for the full human story behind a crime, and what responsibility society carries toward the children caught in its wake.

Key Topics:

• Losing both parents to a single act of violence

• Childhood trauma, instability, and life inside group homes

• Domestic abuse, control, and competing public narratives

• The role of mitigation in telling the full human story at sentencing

• What society owes children who become collateral damage of crime

This episode is essential listening for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of justice beyond punishment, legal professionals, advocates, trauma specialists, and listeners drawn to the human realities behind true crime. It challenges the assumption that a sentence brings closure, expands our definition of who the true victims are, and asks whether empathy has a rightful place inside a system built to judge.

Follow Justin and the pod: @truthbefoundpodcast

Link to Justin’s agency, AIA: https://azprivateinvestigator.com/

Follow Thaddeus Mellon: @vgg.ego

Link to Doug Passon’s work: https://dougpassonlaw.com/

When a dictator is removed, does freedom follow or does the system simply reshape itself?

In this episode, Justin sits down with Faviola, an advocate for Venezuela, for a deeply personal and unfiltered conversation about what really happened when Nicolás Maduro was arrested and why the moment that felt like hope for millions of Venezuelans may not have brought the change the world expected.

Through lived experience, historical context, and on-the-ground insight, the conversation explores why political change without structural reform can leave fear, control, and instability firmly in place and why transitions of power are far more complex than simply removing a single leader.

Key topics:

• Why removing a leader doesn’t dismantle a dictatorship

• The role of loyalty, legacy, and repetition within authoritarian regimes

• Why transition plans matter and how power vacuums can worsen chaos

• The resilience, humanity, and enduring hope of the Venezuelan people

This episode is for anyone trying to understand modern authoritarianism, political transitions, and the lived reality behind regime change. It will challenge assumptions about what freedom looks like, question whether hope alone is enough to rebuild a nation, and invite listeners to consider how power, fear, and loyalty outlast individual leaders.

Follow Justin and the pod: @truthbefoundpodcast  

Link to Justin’s agency, AIA: https://azprivateinvestigator.com/  

Follow Faviola on TikTok: @moreandchismes 

What happens when the most powerful rule of an organization is broken by the man at the top? In this episode, Justin sits down with Angel Garcia, a former Mexican Mafia member who lived the hierarchy, enforced the code, and now sees the system clearly from the outside. Together, they unpack the shockwaves caused by a top leader’s confession to multiple cold-case murders and why that single act threatens the foundation of loyalty, power, and discipline inside the Mexican Mafia.

This conversation goes far beyond headlines. Beyond the shake up in the Mexican Mafia, this discussion also cuts through misinformation around drug trafficking, separating political narratives from operational reality, and Angel opens up about freedom and life after prison.

Key Messages Explored

• Why never talking to the police is the Mexican Mafia’s most sacred rule

• The ripple effects of leadership hypocrisy inside prison gang structures

• What the public gets wrong about fentanyl trafficking routes and operations

• Why rebuilding a lawful life is harder than life inside the organization

Listeners will gain rare insight into how organized crime functions, why hypocrisy at the top dismantles belief systems from the inside, and what real accountability looks like after a life shaped by violence and control. Anyone seeking to understand the human cost behind gang culture, mass incarceration, and the drug trade will learn a lot in this episode—straight from a man who lived it.

Follow Justin and the pod: @truthbefoundpodcast 

Link to Justin’s agency, AIA: https://azprivateinvestigator.com/ 

What if the question isn’t what someone deserves but what it would take for them to live a good life? In this episode, Justin Yentes sits down with Liz, a pioneering mitigation specialist and author of the upcoming book The Deserving. Through decades of work on capital cases, Liz has helped courts see the full humanity of people facing society’s harshest punishments. Together, they unpack how trauma, poverty, intergenerational harm, and systemic failure shape lives long before the justice system ever becomes involved and why punishment alone cannot create safety or justice. Liz also shares the cases that changed her, the patterns she’s seen across hundreds of lives, and why mitigation isn’t about excuses, it’s about context, truth, and moral clarity.

Key Topics Covered:

• Why jurors often never hear the full story before deciding life or death

• The myth of equal opportunity and the danger of retributive justice

• How adverse childhood experiences shape behavior, health, and outcomes

• Intergenerational trauma and the unseen legacy of abuse, poverty, and violence

• Mental health crises and why jails have become America’s largest providers

This episode will challenge deeply held beliefs about punishment, responsibility, and who we consider worthy of care.

If this conversation unsettles you, that’s the point. This episode asks us to rethink who we protect, who we abandon, and what kind of society we’re choosing to build.

Follow Justin and the pod: @truthbefoundpodcast

Link to Justin’s agency, AIA: https://azprivateinvestigator.com

Follow Liz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-vartkessian/

Follow ARC, Inc.: @advancechange

About Advancing Real Change, Inc.: https://advancechange.org/

What happens when surveillance grows faster than the law meant to restrain it? In this episode, Justin sits down with Paul Avelar, attorney at the Institute for Justice, to unpack how modern surveillance technologies, especially automatic license plate reader cameras, are reshaping privacy, constitutional rights, and the balance of power between citizens and the government. From quiet local contracts to nationwide databases, this conversation reveals how systems built in the name of safety can quietly become tools of pervasive tracking.

Key Moments:

• How license plate reader cameras work and what happens with the data they collect
• The lack of transparency and oversight at the city and state level
• Real-world examples of surveillance abuse and misuse by those in power
• Why this issue cuts across political lines and demands bipartisan reform
• What solutions could actually protect privacy without abandoning public safety

This episode challenges the assumption that surveillance is only a problem for criminals or future administrations we don’t trust. It asks listeners to reconsider how much privacy is lost when data is collected indefinitely, shared broadly, and used without probable cause. If you care about constitutional rights, government accountability, civil liberties, or simply the idea of being left alone in a free society, this conversation is essential listening.

Tune in to hear these hard-hitting questions. The answers are vital because they affect us all.

Follow Justin and the pod: @truthbefoundpodcast

Link to Justin’s agency, AIA: https://azprivateinvestigator.com/

Institute for Justice: https://ij.org/

About the Fourth Amendment work: https://ij.org/issues/ijs-project-on-the-4th-amendment/

The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-4/

In today’s Spanish-language episode, Justin sits down with Faviola, originally from Venezuela and now a U.S. citizen, to break down the rapidly unfolding crisis surrounding the U.S. attacks on Venezuelan boats, the absence of evidence behind the drug-trafficking claims, and the deep divide this has created among Venezuelans both inside the country and abroad. Together, they explore how desperation, hope, misinformation, and geopolitical power collide to shape life-or-death consequences for ordinary people.

Listeners will gain:

• A clearer understanding of what’s actually happening between the U.S. and Venezuela

• A deeper empathy for the people caught in the middle

• A challenge to re-examine assumptions about intervention, immigration, and geopolitics

• A reminder that “liberation” without autonomy isn’t liberation at all

This episode is essential for Americans wanting to understand the truth behind the boat strikes, Venezuelans searching for clarity amid overwhelming misinformation, immigrants and advocates concerned about due process and human rights, and anyone who wants a deeper, human perspective beyond headlines.

This conversation may unsettle long-held beliefs, but it also opens the door for more informed judgment, more compassion, and more accountability in how nations wield their power. Follow along for more as this situation continues to evolve.

Show Notes:

Follow Justin and the pod: @truthbefoundpodcast 

Link to Justin’s agency, AIA: https://azprivateinvestigator.com/

Follow Faviola on TikTok: @moreandchismes

The word asylum should mean safety, a promise that the United States will protect those fleeing violence, persecution, or death. For many, from Iran to El Salvador to Venezuela, it has become a maze of shifting rules, bureaucracy, broken commitments, and political stunts. In this episode, Justin sits down with immigration attorney Monika Sud-Devaraj, who’s spent decades on both sides of the system, to break down the asylum process. They also expose how policy changes and funding cuts are complicating lives and destroying faith in the U.S.’s integrity.

Key Moments:

• The Reality of Asylum: What it means under U.S. law and why so few qualify, even when their fear is real.

• Due Process Denied: How sudden rule changes and revoked statuses leave people vulnerable to deportation and possible persecution, torture, or death.

• The CBP One Fallout: How the shutdown of a critical entry pathway left thousands stranded in legal limbo.

• Fear and Bureaucracy: The human toll of endless paperwork, language barriers, and confusion for people simply trying to survive.

• Funding Cuts and Consequences: Why eliminating legal aid programs has made the immigration courts even slower and more dangerous.

• A System in Crisis: How political agendas have turned real human suffering into propaganda and who pays the price.

If you’ve ever wondered what happens to the people America promised to protect or how politics have twisted the meaning of justice—this conversation will challenge your assumptions. It’s a must-listen for anyone who believes in fairness, faith, or the idea that truth should guide policy, not propaganda. Listen now to understand what’s really happening behind the headlines and how we can demand better from a system built on freedom and compassion.

Show Notes:

Follow Justin and the pod: @truthbefoundpodcast 

Link to Justin’s agency, AIA: https://azprivateinvestigator.com/

Monika’s Law Offices: https://msdlawaz.com/

National Immigration Forum (advocates): https://forumtogether.org/ 

The Florence Project: https://firrp.org/

Women of Welcome: https://www.womenofwelcome.com/

World Relief: https://worldrelief.org/immigration-legal-services/