The Raid

John Carlos Frey
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Hosted by six-time Emmy Award winner John Carlos Frey, THE RAID PODCAST is a deep dive into the frontlines of the ICE and Border Patrol immigration raids being implemented by the Trump administration. With an expert team of journalists and community members, the ever changing landscape and stories of the “mass deportation” are documented and broadcast. Learn firsthand what the raids feel like, whether they are lawful and what is happening to the people swept up by the unprecedented and ever increasing show of force.

  1. Twenty Years in the Courtroom — Then ICE Came

    1D AGO

    Twenty Years in the Courtroom — Then ICE Came

    For more than twenty years, Meenu Batra sat inside courtrooms and recorded everything — testimony, rulings, the words spoken on the most consequential days of people's lives. She had legal status. She had a career built on institutional trust. She was as embedded in the American legal system as anyone could be. Then ICE apprehended her. In this episode of The Raid, host John Carlos Frey speaks with Gaige Davila — freelance investigative journalist, former Texas Public Radio Border and Immigration Reporter, correspondent for Deceleration News, and contributor to The Texas Observer. Gaige broke the story of what happened to this immigration court reporter in a recent piece published by The Texas Observer — a story that raises urgent questions about due process, the targeting of legal status holders, and what it means when the people who work inside the justice system are no longer safe from it. This is not a story about someone who crossed a border without documentation. This is a story about a woman who spent two decades serving the court — and what happened when the court's enforcement arm turned its attention to her. https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-court-interpreter-arrested-ice-south-texas-airport/ https://theraidpodcast.org/ Disclaimer: The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates").  The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants, or for any content that appears on the program.    Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    45 min
  2. Immigration Judges: The Purge

    5D AGO

    Immigration Judges: The Purge

    Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, more than 100 immigration judges have been fired in an unprecedented purge — with a similar number resigning or retiring. In their place, the administration has installed over 140 new judges, many with no immigration law experience and as little as three weeks of training. Investigative journalist John Carlos Frey examines who these new judges are, what they've been hired to do, and what it means for the millions of immigrants waiting for their day in court. From a divorce lawyer who fights exclusively for men, to a judge rebuked for deciding a gay man didn't look gay enough for asylum protection — this is the story of how America's immigration courts are being reshaped to serve one goal: deport one million people a year.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/04/27/justice-department-immigration-judges-deportation/  https://newrepublic.com/post/209532/donald-trump-terrifying-new-immigration-judges-experience  https://theraidpodcast.org/ Disclaimer: The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates").  The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants, or for any content that appears on the program.    Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    8 min
  3. The Alert: Izzy Ramirez and LA Taco

    6D AGO

    The Alert: Izzy Ramirez and LA Taco

    Izzy Ramirez didn't start as a journalist. He started as someone who refused to look away.  When ICE raids swept through Los Angeles last summer, Izzy was on the streets — phone in hand, posting real-time alerts, telling people where federal agents were, which neighborhoods to avoid, where families were being torn apart. He wasn't working for a newsroom. He was working for his community. And people listened. LA Taco was listening too.  The Los Angeles-based independent publication — one of the most important outlets covering immigration enforcement in Southern California — recognized what Izzy already was: a reporter. They asked him to make it official. He said yes. And he hasn't stopped since. In just a few months as a staff reporter, Izzy has covered ICE operations, deaths in detention, political corruption, and the day-to-day reality of what he doesn't hesitate to call what it is — the kidnapping of people from their homes, their jobs, their families, across Southern California. He is twenty-something years old. He has no journalism school on his résumé. What he has is the trust of the people most at risk, the instincts of someone who learned by doing, and a publication behind him that understands why that matters.  This is what accountability journalism looks like when it comes from the inside.  https://lataco.com/author/izzy-ramirez  https://theraidpodcast.org/ Disclaimer: The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates").  The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants, or for any content that appears on the program.    Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    52 min
  4. 18 and Unafraid

    APR 28

    18 and Unafraid

    At just 18 years old, Cesar Vasquez is already a veteran organizer on California's Central Coast. As a Rapid Response Organizer for 805 Undocufund — a nonprofit providing emergency financial relief and real-time immigration enforcement alerts to undocumented residents across Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo Counties — Cesar is on the front lines of one of the most vulnerable communities in the country: the largely undocumented farmworker population that feeds much of the nation. But his activism didn't start there. At 14, Cesar founded La Cultura Del Mundo, a youth-led organization built on a simple but radical premise — skip the red tape and ask families directly, "How much do you need?" No forms, no status checks, just rapid mobilization of cash, groceries, rent assistance, and whatever else a family needs to survive. Today, Cesar joins us to speak about the ongoing ICE raids devastating his region. According to 805 Undocufund, over 1,800 people have been taken since the raids began — a number that continues to grow.  https://www.805undocufund.org/  https://laculturadelmundo.org/es https://theraidpodcast.org/ Disclaimer: The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates").  The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants, or for any content that appears on the program.    Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    59 min
  5. Illegal: The Arrest of American Protestors

    APR 24

    Illegal: The Arrest of American Protestors

    Over the past ten months, federal immigration agents and Border Patrol officers have arrested more than three hundred American citizens at immigration protests across the country — charging them with serious federal crimes like assaulting an officer, conspiracy, and interfering with law enforcement. In more than a third of those cases, the charges were dropped, dismissed, or lost at trial. Because the evidence wasn't there. Because in many cases, video footage directly contradicted what arresting officers put in their reports. John Carlos Frey examines the findings of a landmark ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE investigation.  ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/caught-in-crackdown-ice-cbp-immigration-protests-arrests-convictions  PBS FRONTLINE: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/caught-in-crackdown-ice-cbp-immigration-protests-arrests-convictions  https://theraidpodcast.org/ Disclaimer: The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates").  The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants, or for any content that appears on the program.      Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    9 min
  6. Immigrant Rights are Civil Rights

    APR 23

    Immigrant Rights are Civil Rights

    On this episode of The Raid is Marc Philpart. He is the Executive Director of the Black Freedom Fund, bringing more than a decade of leadership in grassroots organizations to build power for racial justice. Marc serves on several boards and advisory committees, including the California Immigrant Policy Center, Partners for Dignity and Rights, and the University of Southern California’s Equity Research Institute. Marc is on the podcast to discuss how the lessons of black empowerment and the civil rights struggles of the past can help inform the immigration rights movement of today.  https://fundblackfreedom.org/  https://theraidpodcast.org/ Disclaimer: The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates").  The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants, or for any content that appears on the program.      Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    47 min
  7. "I Came Home and They Were Gone," Diane Guerrero Tells Her Personal Story

    APR 21

    "I Came Home and They Were Gone," Diane Guerrero Tells Her Personal Story

    Actress and activist, Diane Guerrero candidly reveals details of the night immigration officials deported her parents, leaving her without her family at age 14. Diane Guerrero is an actress and activist best known for her roles in Orange Is the New Black, Jane the Virgin, Doom Patrol and Encanto — but her most important story has nothing to do with Hollywood. When she was fourteen years old, she came home from school to find her parents gone. Immigration officers had arrested them while she was away. No government agency called to check on her. No social worker came to the door. As the only U.S. citizen in her immediate family, she was left to navigate the rest of her childhood alone, taken in by friends' parents, building a life from nothing. For years she kept it secret. Today she is one of the most prominent voices in the country on the human cost of deportation, and what it means to be left behind.  https://www.instagram.com/dianexguerrero/  https://theraidpodcast.org/ Disclaimer: The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates").  The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants, or for any content that appears on the program.    Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    49 min
  8. Abolish ICE?

    APR 17

    Abolish ICE?

    Former Border Patrol Agent, Jenn Budd is back on the podcast to offer her new book that dives into the federal law enforcement agencies known as ICE and US Border Patrol as only an insider can. She helps to explain why we are seeing so much violence and lawlessness by these agencies and offers methods to abolish or reform them.  The book is entitled, ICE - What Everyone Needs to Know and available here: https://www.booktopia.com.au/ice-jenn-budd/ebook/9781956474954.html  https://theraidpodcast.org/ Disclaimer: The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates").  The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants, or for any content that appears on the program.    Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Hosted by six-time Emmy Award winner John Carlos Frey, THE RAID PODCAST is a deep dive into the frontlines of the ICE and Border Patrol immigration raids being implemented by the Trump administration. With an expert team of journalists and community members, the ever changing landscape and stories of the “mass deportation” are documented and broadcast. Learn firsthand what the raids feel like, whether they are lawful and what is happening to the people swept up by the unprecedented and ever increasing show of force.

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  • Creator
    John Carlos Frey
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    80
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © John Carlos Frey
  • Show Website
    The Raid

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