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FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS

Caught In The Crackdown

FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS

FRONTLINE

Documentaries, Pbs, Tv & Film, Wgbh, Frontline

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In collaboration with ProPublica, FRONTLINE traces the violence, protests and arrests stemming from federal immigration sweeps across the United States.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode contains real audio of a violent incident that some listeners may find disturbing.

0:05.8

Listener discretion is advised.

0:08.7

Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audiocast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries.

0:14.6

We also produce the Frontline Dispatch Podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts.

0:20.8

Here is the audio version of Caught in the Crackdown.

0:28.4

Trump has promised to conduct what he calls the largest deportation program in American history.

0:34.7

We will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the

0:40.7

places from which they came.

0:43.2

In collaboration with ProPublica.

0:45.0

Lovina was deployed to several cities.

0:46.9

He was the one who was the tip of the spear for this new type of immigration enforcement

0:51.0

across the country.

0:52.2

When we talk about who they're arresting and who they're holding accountable, it's not

0:55.9

the worst of the worst.

0:57.0

From Los Angeles, hundreds of National Guard troops to Chicago.

1:01.2

Operation Midway Blitz.

1:03.3

To Minneapolis.

1:04.3

The White House to date doubling down.

1:06.4

The pushback on protest.

1:08.4

Trying to terrify people and try to scare people away.

1:11.6

Border patrol agents, they don't wake up in the morning and say,

1:13.6

let me see who I can hurt today.

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