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Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino has emerged as one of the central figures in the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign. Now, CalMatters has teamed up with Latino USA to tell the story of Bovino and the aggressive immigration raids he’s leading in California and beyond.
CalMatters’ Sergio Olmos and Latino USA’s Maria Hinojosa and Fernanda Echavarri take listeners along as they document raids from Bakersfield to Los Angeles to Chicago. Listeners will also hear the story of Mauricio Oropeza, who was arrested while taking the bus home from work the first weekend of the Los Angeles raids and later deported. The reporters tracked Oropeza down in Mexico and visited his mother, who’s still in Los Angeles.
We also spoke to elected leaders — including President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum, Gov. Gavin Newsom, and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass — about their efforts to push back against the full force of the U.S. government.
The show is also available in Spanish.
This episode builds on a previous documentary collaboration with Evident Media.
Catch up on more of our reporting from Olmos and reporter Wendy Fry on the immigration raids:
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Andrew Donohue is the investigative editor at CalMatters. Previously, he served as executive editor of projects at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, where he helped lead digital, audio…
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