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The Raid

John Carlos Frey

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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#164
Yesterday · 27 min
Congressman Maxwell Frost - Why ICE Shouldn’t Exist
What can a new Congress actually do about ICE? Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-FL) has a plan, and it starts with following the money. Frost represents Orlando. He was the first member of Gen Z elected to Congress, and he sits on the House Oversight Committee. He has gone into Orlando’s jail to meet with the immigrants held there and toured the Everglades detention camp the state calls “Alligator Alcatraz.” In this conversation with John Carlos Frey, he lays out what he wants Congress to
#163
Tuesday · 19 min
The Worst of the Worst: Inside 95 Investigations of Border Officers
In 2020, a Customs and Border Protection officer boarded a flight in St. Thomas with his badge, his gun and 16 bricks of cocaine in his carry-on bags. He didn’t have to go through security. It took a drug-sniffing dog in Atlanta to catch him. John Carlos Frey goes through an exclusive list of 95 internal investigations into CBP officers and Border Patrol agents, closed by the Homeland Security inspector general between 2023 and 2025 and obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by attorney A
#162
November 6 · 45 min
ICE and the Law
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández has been a U.S. citizen every day of his life. Coming home from a trip abroad, he handed over his U.S. passport at the Atlanta airport and was held in a room whose door opened only from the outside. No one told him why. Host, John Carlos Frey asks the Ohio State law professor a direct question: is the deportation machine operating lawfully? They work through a list of practices that may break the government’s own rules: arresting people who are following the as
#161
November 3 · 15 min
Election Day and Those Left Out
Today is Election Day. This is a story about the people who wanted to be in that line — and were never allowed to reach it. They did everything this country asked. They got green cards, waited years, paid the fees, were fingerprinted, background-checked and interviewed, and passed the civics test. All that was left was the oath. Then, moments before their ceremony at Boston's Faneuil Hall — the "Cradle of Liberty" — officers began pulling people out of line. Not for anything they did. For where
#160
October 30 · 45 min
ICE Raids are on the Ballot with Astead Herndon
The ICE raids are on the ballot this November. But does any of it actually move voters? Political journalist Astead Herndon has spent a decade asking voters what they really believe, and his answers aren’t comfortable. John Carlos Frey talks with Herndon, host of Vox’s America, Actually, former host of The Run-Up at The New York Times and a CNN political analyst. Herndon argues that President Trump tried to “soft steal” the midterms before they started, through redistricting, fights over mail b
#159
October 27 · 24 min
The Coalition Taking On “Rigged Elections”
Days before the midterms, a coalition of Los Angeles business, faith and civic leaders went inside the county’s vote count to answer one question: will your vote be counted? Miguel Santana, CEO of the California Community Foundation, returns to The Raid to talk with John Carlos Frey about "A Count You Can Trust", the nonpartisan coalition he co-chairs with former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. He explains why the lead can change even after election night, as it did in the mayoral prima
#158
October 23 · 11 min
Blame the Immigrants
A 143-year-old city hall in Limoges, France goes up in flames. Within hours, Vice President J.D. Vance shares the video and tells Americans, “This is the future if congressional Democrats win.” The next morning, President Trump posts, “France is burning,” and blames immigrants. John Carlos Frey treats the claim like a case and follows the evidence. French authorities have not linked immigrants to the rioting. He lays out why the claim is false, why it’s scapegoating, and how it follows the same
#156
October 20 · 41 min
Aaron Parnas: 'The News is Being Sane Washed'
John Carlos Frey sits down with Aaron Parnas, the former public defender turned independent news creator with millions of followers on TikTok and one of Substack’s top newsletters, The Parnas Perspective. Parnas started posting when Russia invaded Ukraine and his six-year-old cousin was sheltering in a bathtub in Kyiv. He had a million followers within a week. Today he talks about why legacy media “sane-washes” this administration, and he breaks down the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home three wee
#157
October 17 · 22 min
A Count You Can Trust
Fear is keeping people from the polls. On this episode of The Raid, investigative journalist John Carlos Frey talks with former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa about A Count You Can Trust, a new nonpartisan coalition he co-chairs to explain how votes are counted and correct false claims with facts. Villaraigosa has been on the ballot 21 times and says he has never seen tension like this. With talk of ICE agents at voting centers, an immigration enforcement surge in Los Angeles, and claim
#155
October 16 · 48 min
Who Holds ICE Accountable?
John Carlos Frey talks with Nick Miroff, staff writer at The Atlantic, 2026 Pulitzer Prize finalist, and George Polk Award winner, about what’s really happening inside ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. He explains why the White House keeps doubling down on mass deportation, including how a pause on ICE traffic stops was reversed within 24 hours. He also walks through his reporting showing that violent crime is falling fastest in the same sanctuary cities the administration is targeti
#154
October 13 · 40 min
Is Mass Deportation Racially Motivated?
John Carlos Frey sits down with Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, to talk about what mass deportation is doing to immigrant families, U.S. citizens, and the country itself. Cárdenas came to the U.S. from Bolivia at 14. Today she’s having the same conversation with her own U.S.-born kids that Latino families across the country are having: what to do if ICE pulls you over. Her cousin now carries a copy of her U.S.-citizen daughter’s passport, just in case. Relatives with le
#153
October 9 · 47 min
The Fight Against the Deportation Machine
In 2018, Jess Morales Rocketto helped put people in the streets of hundreds of cities to stop family separation. Now she says the deportation machine has gotten smarter, and that pushing back still works. John Carlos Frey sits down with the organizer behind Families Belong Together and the co-founder of Maremoto, which builds Latino power through politics, media and culture. Morales Rocketto began her career in anti-genocide activism. She explains why she believes the United States is at stage
#152
October 6 · 27 min
Locked Out of Adelanto by ICE - Congresswoman Judy Chu Goes Back
Weeks before the November 3 midterms, Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) joins John Carlos Frey to talk about ICE raids in her district, the detention center that refused to let her in, and whether immigration agents could show up at polling places. Chu represents Pasadena, Altadena, and the West San Gabriel Valley, a district hit first by the Eaton Fire and then, five months later, by immigration raids. She describes constituents who carry their passports everywhere, people arrested at the very appointments
#151
October 2 · 21 min
Did ICE Use a Car as a Weapon?
ICE agents stopped a work van outside Albany, Georgia. Three men ran. One of them, 28-year-old Edgar Cabrera-Gómez, ended up pinned beneath an ICE agent's Dodge Charger in the grass median of the Liberty Expressway. The Georgia State Patrol says the agent was driving in the median. ICE says Edgar "lost his footing and slid under" the car. His family says he was run down while running away, and that the first story they were told was that he jumped out of the van and hurt himself. John Carlos F
#150
September 29 · 42 min
Millions Are Losing Legal Status
What happens when people who have lived in the U.S. legally for decades are suddenly made undocumented? Host John Carlos Frey sits down with Todd Schulte, president of FWD.us, the policy organization working on immigration and criminal justice reform. Todd explains what he calls the "de-legalizing" of immigrants: the unprecedented revocation of DACA, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and other protections that could leave an estimated 3.5 million previously lawful residents without status by 202
#149
September 25 · 18 min
The 8,000 Pages ICE Won't Release
In February 2026, ICE's acting director told the U.S. Senate under oath there was "no reason" for immigration agents to be at polling places. Within months, armed agents made an arrest outside a San Antonio polling site, showed up at a voting location in Simi Valley, and confronted a poll worker in Syracuse, New York, in the middle of her shift. With a federal judge ordering documents about these incidents be released before Election Day, more than 8,000 pages are still scheduled to stay hidden
#148
September 24 · 42 min
"They're Going to Seize Ballots"
Is ICE coming to the polls? Independent investigative journalist Justin Glawe joins host John Carlos Frey to connect two stories that are rapidly converging: America's deportation machine and the organized effort to undermine the 2026 midterm elections. Glawe, whose reporting has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Esquire and more, has tracked election deniers who hold elected and appointed positions on county election boards in key swing distri
#147
September 22 · 9 min
Denver Sues ICE
Can armed agents be at your polling place? The city of Denver just did something no city has done before: it sued the Trump administration to keep armed ICE agents away from the polls. On Thursday, September 10, 2026, the City and County of Denver, along with LULAC, Common Cause, and Unidos US, filed suit in federal court in Washington, D.C. against the Department of Homeland Security, ICE, and their leadership. The plaintiffs allege an unwritten "polling place policy" that could put armed agen
#146
September 18 · 12 min
ICE at the Polls?
Election Day is weeks away, and the officials who control armed federal law enforcement still won't say a simple word: no. Host John Carlos Frey breaks down the pattern building since February 2026 — FBI Director Kash Patel's refusal, under direct questioning from the Senate Judiciary Committee, to commit that FBI agents will stay away from polling places; DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin's “specific threat” exception for ICE deployment at voting sites; a bipartisan warning letter from a dozen sen
#145
September 17 · 47 min
Fixing America's Broken Immigration System
Host John Carlos Frey sits down with immigration attorney and author Robert Coughlon Jr. to discuss his new book, Fixing Immigration in America: A Commonsense Plan for Immigration Reform. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience in family-based immigration and deportation defense — and a personal history that includes his father's career as a Border Patrol agent, INS adjudicator, immigration attorney, and eventually immigration judge — Coughlon lays out a middle ground approach to one of the

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