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 Scwellenbach. 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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