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Hosted by John Carlos Frey · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 110 episodes
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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.
John Carlos Frey hosts The Raid, a news show with 110 episodes published.
John Carlos Frey tells the story of Gabriel Cariaco's arrest in Bellevue, Nebraska — a legal asylum seeker who fled Venezuela, accused of being a member of the gang Tren de Aragua, and charged with attempted murder of a
Three men are dead in fourteen days — Houston, Biddeford, St. Augustine — all in encounters with ICE. In the same week, border czar Tom Homan told Fox News that ICE agents are "well-trained in vehicle stops," then said h
John Carlos Frey sits down with Jennifer Huerta, a sixth-grade language teacher in Bakersfield, California, and a recipient of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Brought to the U.S. from Michoacán, Mexico at
Ten people. Ten families still waiting for someone in the U.S. government to be held responsible for their deaths. In this episode, John Carlos Frey goes case by case through ten people killed by ICE and Border Patrol th
Every unaccompanied immigrant child facing deportation is legally entitled to a lawyer — it's the law, not a favor. But the federal contract funding that representation for over 20,000 children expires this month, and in
John Carlos Frey talks with Nicole Locklin — a Miami attorney and first-time candidate now running as the Democratic nominee for Florida's 26th Congressional District against 24-year incumbent Mario Diaz-Balart. Locklin
John Carlos Frey sits down with Flor Melendrez to talk about the wave of ICE raids that swept through Los Angeles car washes over the past year. Melendez shares her personal path into labor organizing — growing up the ch
ICE has been targeting labor leaders and organizers along with thousands of workers who are now more afraid than ever to fight for better working conditions. In this podcast, investigative journalist John Carlos Frey tra
What if ICE raids aren't just about immigration enforcement — what if they're part of something much bigger? In this episode, host John Carlos Frey sits down with journalist and activist Lee Stedman, whose on-the-ground
On August 28, 2025, three immigrant rights activists followed an unmarked ICE vehicle through Los Angeles and livestreamed what they saw — exactly what rapid responders across Southern California had been doing for month
The U.S. government wired $70 million to purchase a massive warehouse to house detained immigrants in Surprise, Arizona — without telling the mayor, the city council, or a single one of the 80,000 people who lived there.
Host John Carlos Frey sits down with Lilian Serrano, Director of the Southern Border Communities Coalition, for a powerful conversation about what's really happening along the U.S.-Mexico border — and what it means for t
He was born in the United States. He has a Real ID, a Social Security number and a birth certificate. ICE detained him three times in less than one year. Leonardo Garcia Venegas is a 26-year-old construction worker from
John Carlos Frey digs into the extra $70 billon just approved for ICE and Border Patrol. What is that money for and how is it all managed? The details are nothing short of a corrupt system. https://theraidpodcast.org/ ht
Host John Carlos Frey talks with Nayna Gupta, Policy Director at the American Immigration Council, to break down the Council's new report: Restoring Credibility and Humanity — a detailed framework proposing a path forwar
John Carlos Frey speaks with Stephen Sefton — industrial designer, philosopher, and founder of Third Coast Pillows — to explore how one small business owner is fighting back against America's deportation machine with art
ICE has quietly changed how it reports deaths in immigration detention — and the change is designed to make people disappear from the record. Under the new internal policy, a death only counts as an "in-custody death" if
Award-winning journalist Jacob Soboroff — author of Separated: Inside an American Tragedy and incoming host of Connect with Jacob Soboroff (premiering June 13 on MSNOW) — sits down with host John Carlos Frey on The Raid
Host John Carlos Frey speaks with Austin Kocher, a political and legal geographer and Navy veteran (1999–2003), about the deeply underreported issue of immigrant veterans being detained and deported under the current adm
In the 1960s, the CIA recruited tens of thousands of Hmong farmers and warriors in Laos to fight a secret proxy war on behalf of the United States. They rescued downed American pilots, ran intelligence operations, and di
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