John Carlos Frey takes a look at the history of the top three officials within the Department of Homeland Security running the mass deportation campaign after the firing of Kristi Noem. Each has a questionable past making confidence in DHS questionable. Frey contends not much will change now that Noem is gone.

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https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_dhs_regarding_rodney_scottpdf.pdf

https://rollcall.com/2018/08/10/ethics-committee-orders-markwayne-mullin-to-pay-back-40000/#:~:text=The%20Office%20of%20Congressional%20Ethics,Fontelo%20contributed%20to%20this%20report.

https://nevadacurrent.com/2025/02/27/repub/private-prison-giant-sees-1b-ice-contract-as-start-of-unprecedented-opportunities-under-trump/#:~:text=By:%20Ariana%20Figueroa%20%2D%20February%2027%2C%202025%202:45%20pm&text=WASHINGTON%20%E2%80%94%20U.S.%20Immigration%20and%20Customs,and%20executive%20chairman%20of%20GEO.

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48704

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Over the past year, through a series of executive orders, asylum cases have all but halted. Asylum was a legal method of fleeing persecution and fear of life to find safe harbor in the United States. In the recent past, the process to gain asylum had been lengthy and grueling for most applicants with the vast majority of applicants being rejected but now it appears the doors have closed, altogether. In this episode of the The Raid, Maria Salguero an attorney from Immigrant Legal Defense Center specializing in asylum law, speaks candidly about the ever-changing landscape for asylum seekers and how many are now being barred from applying or detained and even deported.

https://www.sbimmigrantdefense.org/

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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the nation’s leading authority on child health, has repeatedly and unequivocally opposed the detention of children for immigration purposes; in fact, the AAP’s leadership recently reiterated that all children held in immigration detention should be immediately released, and these facilities should be permanently shuttered.”

On the podcast is Barbara Rodriguez. She's the health reporter for the digital publication, "The 19th". She recently published an article entitled, " These pediatrician moms have a shared message: Release all children in immigration detention" The article is a conversation with pediatrician moms who see the inherent dangers in incarcerating children.

Barbara has been a journalist for nearly 20 years, reporting from statehouses, a presidential campaign trail and doctor's offices during the early days of the global pandemic.

https://19thnews.org/2026/03/pediatrician-moms-children-health-immigration-detention/

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/614d500305bc5541f50c3baf/t/69a1effc5cc09a2d4ea92656/1772220412407/End+Child+Detention+Letter+with+signatures+Feb+26+2026.pdf

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John Carlos Frey takes a deep look into the separation of parents from their children during the mass deportation effort. Children are being abandoned against what used to be standard procedure that considered the plight of children during deportation proceedings. The numbers are alarming and worse than any other family separation tactic in the past.

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https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/family-separation-policy/#:~:text=In%20the%20spring%20and%20summer,been%20reunited%20with%20their%20parents.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/trump-deportation-children-trauma https://www.ilrc.org/community-resources/know-your-rights/step-step-family-preparedness-plan#:~:text=Make%20sure%20to%20write%20down,find%20someone%20in%20ICE%20custody.

https://phr.org/our-work/resources/what-about-my-children-family-separation-among-parents-deported-to-honduras/

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Alvaro Huerta is the Director of Litigation and Advocacy for Immigrant Defenders Law Center. The organization has recently filed suit against the Adelanto immigrant detention facility in Southern California. The lawsuit alleges, "People have been forced to live in unsanitary conditions and subjected to punitive isolation and neglect, conditions that would be considered abuse in almost any other setting. It specifically challenges the denial of basic necessities at the facility—including medical and mental health care, access to the outdoors, adequate nutrition and water, and sanitary living conditions."

Alvaro is on the podcast to talk about the lawsuit, conditions at the Adelanto detention facility and in general, the way migrants are treated in facilities across the country.

https://www.immdef.org/blog/ltvice_filing

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Back on the podcast is journalist, Nick Schwellenbach. He's a Senior Investigator at Pogo Investigates, the news reporting division of the Project on Government Oversight.

John Carlos Frey and Nick discuss a recent article Nick coauthored entitled Ice, Inc. The Top Companies Profiting from Trump's Immigration Crackdown.

They discuss the companies most closely associated with the massive deportation machine and their lobbying efforts to get a bigger and bigger piece of the contract pie. Companies such as Palantir, CSI Aviation, Geo Group, Core Civic and Acquisition Logistics have been awarded massive contracts to implement the deportations. They also lobby and donate millions to political campaigns and PACs.

https://www.pogo.org/investigates/ice-inc-the-top-companies-profiting-from-trumps-immigration-crackdown

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In March 2025, a year ago this month, the United States deported 238 Venezuelans to El Salvador, to be immediately and indefinitely imprisoned without trial and without convictions, prison sentences nor release dates. Human Rights Watch considered this practice a violation of national and international laws, and especially human rights violations. In this episode John Carlos Frey summarizes this flashpoint of the deportation agenda and how we have continued to violate the constitution since then.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/03/15/trump-el-salvador-cecot-deportations/

https://www.nilc.org/resources/tracking-the-cecot-disappearances/

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/16/us/el-salvador-deportees-forcibly-disappeared

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Anat Shenker-Osorio is a prominent American political strategist, messaging consultant, and researcher specializing in communication strategies for progressive causes. She is best known for her work on the Race-Class Narrative Project and for founding ASO Communications, where she advises global campaigns. She has presented her work to such groups as the Congressional Progressive Caucus the ACLU, Ford Foundation, and Open Society Foundations. Her commentary frequently appears in such major outlets as The New York Times, Rolling Stone and The Atlantic. Anat shares with John Carlos Frey how to communicate an effective strategy for immigrant rights against what she calls is an authoritarian regime and also share about new growing coalition of immigrant rights advocates called, Brave of US.

https://braveofus.com/

https://asocommunications.com/

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