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 it happens inside a detention facility. Deaths that occur after release — even the day after — are no longer reported.

In this episode, John Carlos Frey breaks down exactly what this policy change means, why it was made, and who it affects — and why calling it anything other than a cover-up would be dishonest.

People are dying in the custody of the United States government. And now, the government has made it significantly easier to make sure those deaths are never counted.

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https://www.newsweek.com/ice-updates-reporting-policy-amid-rising-detainee-deaths-12034515

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-ends-post-release-death-reporting-1800942

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1404918-ice-ends-30-day-detainee-death-reporting-rule-amid-custody-concerns

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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 to trace his full journey covering U.S. immigration policy.

From his first trip across the border into Tijuana during the Obama era, to the moment he walked into a converted Walmart housing 1,100 separated boys in Brownsville, TX — Soboroff reflects on what he missed, what changed him, and why he refuses to pretend injustice has "two sides." He also opens up about covering the 2025 LA wildfires that burned his childhood neighborhood, how those events shaped his new show's identity, and why he believes human connection — not neutrality — is the future of journalism.

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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 administration. Kocher explains that while this problem predates the Trump administration, deportations of veterans have accelerated dramatically in recent years.

Kocher argues that the current administration has eliminated even the modest administrative protections that previous administrations — both Republican and Democratic — had extended to veteran cases, leaving immigrant veterans with virtually no shield against deportation.

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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 died by the thousands — doing work Congress never officially authorized. When the U.S. withdrew in 1975, it left them behind. After surviving massacres, refugee camps, and decades of displacement, most of them rebuilt their lives here, in America. Now the government is deporting them.

Since the summer of 2025, ICE has been arresting Hmong residents across Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin — many of them here for forty years, some U.S. citizens swept up in raids. In Indiana, two Southeast Asian refugees — a Cambodian man named Lorth Sim and a Vietnamese man named Tuan Van Bui — died in the same newly-opened detention facility within weeks of each other. No network interviewed their families. No crew was sent. John Carlos Frey investigates the most underreported deportation story in America: a community that fought for this country, fled to this country, and is now being erased by it — while the cameras look the other way.

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https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/hmong-deportation-ice-minnesota-laos/

https://www.startribune.com/hmong-minnesotans-face-deportation-laos-ice-arrests/601385285

https://asamnews.com/2026/04/08/cambodian-vietnamese-detainee-deaths-ice-indiana/

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Four powerful Latinas — actress and activist Diane Guerrero, communications strategist Arianna Rosales, immigration attorney Grisel Ruiz, and liberation-psychology therapist Monica de la Cruz Lopez — come together as powerful unified voice, referring to themselves as, "We Ride at Dawn". They join forces at this critical time to confront the human cost of America's mass deportation machine.

In this raw and moving conversation, they share personal stories of family separation, undocumented life, immigration detention, and systemic dehumanization — and make the case that storytelling is not a retreat from crisis, but its deepest form of resistance. The group explores how shame silences immigrant communities, why psychology has historically been weaponized against the people it claims to help, and how ancestral healing, community organizing, and radical self-love can build the infrastructure for lasting change.

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Investigative journalist René Kladzyk of POGO (Project on Government Oversight) joins host John Carlos Frey to expose the troubling track record of Loyal Source Government Services, a private medical contractor operating inside ICE detention facilities — most notably Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.

Kladzyk details how Loyal Source has faced years of documented allegations: medical neglect, chronic understaffing, labor violations, deaths under their care, and failures to maintain basic medical records — yet has seen a 1,000% increase in federal contracts, reaching nearly $2 billion in fiscal year 2026.

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John Carlos Frey looks at the death of Kesley Vial, a 23-year-old Brazilian asylum seeker who died in 2022 at the Torrance County Detention Facility in New Mexico — a privately-run facility operated by CoreCivic. The episode investigates how CoreCivic destroyed footage from 14 surveillance cameras after Vial's suicide attempt, while preserving only 49 still images favorable to their defense — even after receiving a legal preservation demand the day he died.

https://theintercept.com/2026/05/24/ice-corecivic-death-private-prison-judge/

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Host John Carlos Frey sits down with Chris Newman, legal director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), to explore the escalating federal crackdown on day laborers across the US. Newman traces his path from law student to frontline advocate. He argues that immigrants defending their Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights are protecting everyone's constitutional rights, not just their own, and that today's crisis may finally birth a genuine immigrant rights social movement.

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