Fighting ICE with Journalism, with Memo Torres

Factually! with Adam Conover

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4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Trump’s assault on immigrants is ongoing. ICE continues to raid neighborhoods, kidnap people, and commit the occasional murder. Time and again, it’s been proven that standing together with the community is the most effective response. Memo Torres is a multimedia journalist with the esteemed L.A. Taco, which had roots as a local food scene blog before becoming an award-winning journalism outlet. This week, Adam talks with Memo about the current state of the ICE raids and the crucial role of local journalism in this moment. Find Memo’s work and L.A. Taco at https://www.lataco.com/

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.0	I don't know the truth.
0:08.3	I don't know the way.
0:10.9	I don't know what to think.
0:13.6	I don't know what to say.
0:16.6	Yeah, but that's all right.
0:19.4	That's okay.
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:27.3	Hey there, welcome to Factually.
0:28.9	I'm Adam Conover.
0:29.8	Thank you so much for joining me on the show again.
0:33.4	You know, one of the worst ongoing plot lines in this horrible Trump administration tale that we're living through is ISIS assault on immigrant communities around the country.
0:46.0	A growing army of masked thugs have barreled their way into communities, kidnapping people, brutalizing people for most of the last year.
0:55.3	Oh, and they've also committed occasional murders, some highly reported on, some less so.
1:01.0	Earlier this year, though, we saw the people of Minneapolis heroically come together to
1:05.3	basically defeat ice in their own city and chase them out with their tails between their
1:10.2	legs.
1:11.1	But despite that very high-profile victory by the public of this country against fascism,
1:18.2	the raids have not stopped.
1:20.1	And there are billions of dollars still flowing in to build out this racist deportation
1:26.5	force, to create new detention centers, and to
1:29.6	brutalize the communities that you and I live in. But even though people are still being
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