{"podcast":{"title":"The Raid","slug":"the-raid-7569219","podcast_index_feed_id":7569219,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/9qpQUasG","website_url":"https://www.pitaya.fm/","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/00c81e60-45f9-4643-9fed-2184b2b6a3d3/7c4b6afd-9380-4f62-86ed-3e9c4ab30621/3000x3000/the-20raid-20logo.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"John Carlos Frey","episode_count":119,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T20:20:01.787615+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-raid-7569219"},"episode":{"title":"Twenty Years in the Courtroom — Then ICE Came","slug":"twenty-years-in-the-courtroom-then-ice-came","published_at":"2026-05-05T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-raid-7569219/twenty-years-in-the-courtroom-then-ice-came","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-raid-7569219","url":"https://www.pitaya.fm/","audio_url":"https://stitcher.simplecastaudio.com/0b4eeace-be24-4a6a-aa05-8fb4211e27d3/episodes/c4d95f4e-ac0a-4c21-ad78-4d4bb5faed2f/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=0b4eeace-be24-4a6a-aa05-8fb4211e27d3&awEpisodeId=c4d95f4e-ac0a-4c21-ad78-4d4bb5faed2f&feed=9qpQUasG","summary":"For more than twenty years, Meenu Batra sat inside courtrooms and recorded everything — testimony, rulings, the words spoken on the most consequential days of people's lives. She had legal status. She had a career built on institutional trust. She was as embedded in the American legal system as anyone could be. Then ICE apprehended her. In this episode of The Raid, host John Carlos Frey speaks with Gaige Davila — freelance investigative journalist, former Texas Public Radio Border and Immigration Reporter, correspondent for Deceleration News, and contributor to The Texas Observer. Gaige broke the story of what happened to this immigration court reporter in a recent piece published by The Texas Observer — a story that raises urgent questions about due process, the targeting of legal status holders, and what it means when the people who work inside the justice system are no longer safe from it. This is not a story about someone who crossed a border without documentation. This is a story about a woman who spent two decades serving the court — and what happened when the court's enforcement arm turned its attention to her. https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-court-interpreter-arrested-ice-south-texas-airport/ 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.","meta_description":"For more than twenty years, Meenu Batra sat inside courtrooms and recorded everything — testimony, rulings, the words spoken on the most consequential day…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2709,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-raid-7569219/episodes/twenty-years-in-the-courtroom-then-ice-came/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-raid-7569219/twenty-years-in-the-courtroom-then-ice-came.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}