On January 7th, a 37-year-old mother of three named Renee Goode was shot and killed by an ICE agent on a residential street in south Minneapolis — two blocks from an elementary school. The federal government says she tried to run the agent over with her car and called it an act of domestic terrorism. Her family, eyewitnesses, and an independent autopsy tell a very different story.

Six to seven months later, the state of Minnesota still hasn't been given full access to the evidence that could settle which version is true. In this episode, host John Carlos Frey walks through the timeline: Operation Metro Surge, the 399-millisecond gap between the first two shots, the independent autopsy results, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension's stalled investigation, the Department of Justice's decision to close its review of the agent involved, and the federal subpoenas now targeting Minnesota's own elected officials.

This is an accountability story about who controls the evidence — and what happens when the government that pulled the trigger is also the government deciding how much of the truth anyone else gets to see.

https://theraidpodcast.org/

Disclaimer:

The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates"). The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants, or for any content that appears on the program.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Armed CBP agents and contractors entered Tohono O'odham land before dawn, blocked tribal police from enforcing their own law, and brought in a SWAT team to protect the work. Before sunrise on August 25, roughly twenty masked, armed CBP agents crossed onto the Tohono O'odham Nation alongside border wall contractors — Tribal police were blocked from making arrests. A CBP tactical unit, a surveillance balloon, and coordination with Mexican police followed.

John Carlos Frey breaks down what the Tohono O'odham Nation's own statement documents, what the evidence actually shows about whether a wall is real border security.

Tohono O'odham Nation — "No Wall" campaign / latest news: https://www.tonation-nsn.gov/nowall/latest-news/ —

https://www.tonation-nsn.gov/border-wall-contractors-warned-not-to-trespass-on-the-nation/

Drone footage: https://www.tonation-nsn.gov

https://theraidpodcast.org/

Disclaimer:

The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates"). The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants, or for any content that appears on the program.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

John Carlos Frey sits down with Carlos Garcia — former executive director of the human rights organization Puente Human Rights Movement, former Vice Mayor of Phoenix, and longtime immigrant rights organizer.

In this conversation, Garcia and Frey trace the roots of today's ICE raids back to Arizona's Sheriff Arpaio era and the state laws — SB 1070, the 287(g) program, English-only policies, and more — that turned local law enforcement into de facto immigration agents.

This is a candid, wide-ranging conversation about race, power, and resistance from someone who has spent more than two decades on the front lines of the immigrant rights movement.

https://theraidpodcast.org/

Disclaimer:

The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates"). The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants, or for any content that appears on the program.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A local officer runs the plates on a Ford Explorer parked outside a town hall — and the story the driver gives him falls apart within minutes. In this episode of The Raid, host John Carlos Frey breaks down what happened outside Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's August 6th town hall in Richfield, Minnesota, when a woman claiming to be private security turned out to be a federal Homeland Security Investigations agent.

This episode looks past the single parking-lot encounter to ask a bigger question: what does it mean for a community that already believes it is being watched? Is this a story about voter suppression, or something more corrosive — the chilling effect of surveillance that never needs to be proven to change how people show up to political life.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/08/10/rep-ilhan-omar-raises-questions-about-undercover-ice-agent-at-town-hall/

https://omar.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/omar-evo.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026.08.07-rep-omar-letter-to-hsi.pdf

https://theraidpodcast.org/

Disclaimer:

The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates"). The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants, or for any content that appears on the program.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A father in New Mexico thought he was going to an interview to reunite with his kids. Instead, ICE put him in chains. On this episode of The Raid,

John Carlos Frey traces how the Trump administration is using migrant children in federal custody as leverage to locate and detain their parents and relatives — and how that's just one piece of a much bigger strategy to dismantle long standing protections for migrant children and to fast track their deportation. This is a story assembled from public reporting, court filings, and a sitting U.S. senator's letter to HHS — not hidden, just scattered. We put the pieces together.

KFF Health News — investigation on ORR/ICE coordinating to use migrant children to locate and detain relatives https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/the-week-in-brief-immigration-enforcement-migrant-kids-detention/

The Hill — Sen. Ron Wyden's June 2026 letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warning of fast-tracked deportation of 500+ children https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5941396-wyden-warns-trump-deportations-migrant-children/

CNN Politics — reporting on the administration accelerating deportations of migrant children in US custody https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/28/politics/migrant-children-deportations-trump

https://theraidpodcast.org/

Disclaimer:

The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates"). The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants, or for any content that appears on the program

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Host John Carlos Frey investigates the killing of Isaias Sanchez Barbosa, a 31-year-old man shot three times by a Border Patrol agent on a private ranch in Starr County, Texas, on December 11th.

Frey lays out how this case fits a long-running pattern: agency self-investigation, a fast public statement built on the same handful of justifying phrases, records that surface only when a reporter or a lawsuit forces them out, and grand juries that almost never indict. He also makes the case for why a border shooting like this one belongs on the same list as the interior immigration-enforcement killings that have made national headlines this year, since Border Patrol and ICE operate under the same department, the same use-of-force policy, and the same chain of command.

Border Report - Syndicated Texas Tribune coverage: https://www.borderreport.com/hot-topics/texas-tribune/a-border-agent-killed-a-migrant-who-crossed-into-starr-county-eight-months-later-its-still-under-investigation/

San Antonio Current - "A Border Patrol agent killed a migrant in Texas last December. Officials are still withholding details.": https://www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-news/a-border-patrol-agent-killed-a-migrant-in-texas-last-december-officials-are-still-withholding-details/

https://theraidpodcast.org/

Disclaimer:

The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates"). The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants, or for any content that appears on the program.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

For over a year, LA Taco staff reporter Izzy Ramirez has been on the ground documenting ICE and Border Patrol raids across Southern California — logging arrests, archiving footage, and standing between agents and the communities they're targeting. In this deeply personal follow-up conversation, host John Carlos Frey asks the question most interviews skip: what has doing this work actually done to you? Izzy opens up about the drinking, the public "crash outs" on social media, the nights he can't stop scrolling, and the death of a teenager whose story hit painfully close to home. He and Frey talk honestly about burnout, the absence of any real support system for reporters covering trauma in real time, the guilt of stepping away even for a moment, and the "savior complex" that keeps so many activists and journalists from resting. It's a raw look at what it costs to bear witness — and why Izzy says he isn't planning to stop.

This episode covers heavy material, including grief, substance use, and a young man's death. Listener discretion advised.

https://lataco.com/author/izzy-ramirez

https://theraidpodcast.org/

Disclaimer:

The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates"). The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants, or for any content that appears on the program.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Host John Carlos Frey sits down with longtime civil rights organizer Eric Ward — Executive Vice President of Race Forward and a Senior Fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center — to unpack the argument at the center of his recent Colorlines essay, "The Latest ICE Surge Is Political Violence."

Drawing on nearly four decades of organizing work, Ward lays out why he believes the current wave of ICE enforcement is not simply aggressive immigration policy, but a deliberate campaign of political intimidation — one aimed at all Americans, not only immigrants and refugees. He traces the throughline from the three cornerstone pillars of the 1960s civil rights victories (the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and the Immigration and Nationality Act) to the tactics now on display: masked agents, unmarked vehicles, courthouse and workplace operations, missing body-camera footage, and resistance to transparency.

Ward and Frey dig into the data behind the rhetoric of "public safety" and "criminality," the rise of Great Replacement Theory inside mainstream political discourse, and the historical parallel Ward draws to selective enforcement under Jim Crow. The conversation closes on a practical note: what ordinary people — voters, journalists, artists, and neighbors — can actually do to push back, from small daily acts of courage to showing up at the polls in November.

https://colorlines.com/article/project/latest-ice-surge-political-violence

https://www.raceforward.org/

https://theraidpodcast.org/

Disclaimer:

The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates"). The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants, or for any content that appears on the program.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.