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.

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https://asocommunications.com/

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Chris Jeffries is a Freelance writer, journalist and currently the editor in chief of HR News a digital publication covering a wide range of topics including politics, social justice and technology among others. HR News recently published and article about ICE and Federal agents accessing Ring Camera data for immigration related operations. John Carlos Frey and Chris discuss the increasing surveillance state related to ICE and the ongoing Immigration Raids.

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On our weekly news update, John Carlos Frey takes a look at the ever increasing list of restrictions imposed on legal pathways to the United States. It is becoming more difficult for immigrants. Even those that are in the US legally find themselves in limbo or with pending notices of deportation.

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https://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/analyses/trump-2-0s-year-one-reshaping-us-legal-immigration/

https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/why-legal-immigration-nearly-impossible

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Angelica Salas is currently the Executive Director at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, better known as CHIRLA.

She understands the plight of immigrants first hand as she and her entire family lived in the US as undocumented immigrants. They experienced raids, discrimination and deportation then later were able to legalize their status.

CHIRLA, the immigrant-led organization empowers other immigrants and their families to lobby for local, state, and national policies that advance their human, civil, and labor rights. Angelica has led CHIRLA to become one of the nation’s largest and most effective immigrant rights organizations in the country.

CHIRLA and Angelica's achievements include: winning in-state, financial aid and grant programs for California’s undocumented students, establishing day-laborer centers that have become national models, winning drivers’ licenses for undocumented drivers, decoupling local police departments from immigration enforcement, expanding access to immigrant legal services and winning Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

Angelica has become a central figure in responding to the massive ICE raids that began in Los Angeles in June 2025, which she describes as a "campaign of terror" and an unprecedented assault on constitutional rights.

She speaks candidly with John Carlos Frey about her personal history and continuing the fight for reform and equal justice.

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Annie Nolte-Henning is the Executive Director of Community Sponsorship Hub, an organization that makes it easier for communities to welcome refugees and other displaced people. They do this by connecting community partners at the national and local levels with the knowledge and financial resources they need to ensure that sponsors and those they are welcoming are set up for success. Annie lives in Minnesota and is on the podcast today to speak about her work with refugees and the current state of Minnesota after 'Operation Metro Surge'. Although the majority of federal immigration agents may have left the state, fear and the after affects of the raids, remain.

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John Carlos Frey goes on a journey of court filings, lawsuits, petitions and rulings against the administration's efforts to deport millions of people from the U.S. He profiles the record number of court proceedings against the efforts of mass deportation, more than any other administration in history.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/habeas-petitions-immigrant-detentions-trump#:~:text=HTML%20Immigrants%20Who%20Say,of%20federal%20court%20filings%20found.

https://tracreports.org/immigration/quickfacts/detention.html https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/01/looking-back-at-2025-the-supreme-court-and-the-trump-administration/#:~:text=During%20the%20first%20year%20of,authority%20to%20issue%20such%20relief.

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/state-attorneys-general-lawsuits-against-trump-administration/#:~:text=State%20AGs%20are%20proving%20just,to%20shape%20federal%20immigration%20policies.

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Eunisses Hernandez is a native of Highland Park in Los Angeles and the daughter of Mexican immigrants. She is the City Council Member for the 1st District in Los Angeles. In July of 2025, her district became an iconic flashpoint of the immigration raids as federal agents in tactical gear carrying firearms moved in on a region called, MacArthur Park. The federal agents were all walking in a straight line, side by side, some on horseback, as news helicopters hovered above. Her district is also home to Operation Trojan Horse where ICE agents hid in the back of a Penske moving van as they approached a Home Depot parking lot to apprehend day laborers. Council Member Hernandez speaks candidly about the ongoing immigration raids.

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