Inside Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
The FRONTLINE Dispatch
GBH
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the treatment of protesters and bystanders during the Trump administration’s recent immigration sweeps.
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| 0:00.0 | The Department of Homeland Security says it has begun Operation Midway Blitz. |
| 0:07.0 | It's a peagasting of a. |
| 0:10.0 | It's peaceful! |
| 0:11.0 | People live here! |
| 0:13.0 | Over the past year, a team from Frontline and ProPublica have been investigating the treatment of protesters and bystanders during the Trump administration's |
| 0:22.8 | immigration sweeps across the country. |
| 0:25.3 | You! |
| 0:26.3 | Shame! |
| 0:27.3 | Shame! |
| 0:28.5 | Shame! |
| 0:29.5 | Border patrol agents, they don't wake up in the morning and say, let me see who |
| 0:33.9 | I can hurt today. |
| 0:35.5 | The reporters and filmmakers documented the often violent and sometimes deadly results |
| 0:40.9 | when masked and heavily armed agents from ICE and Border Patrol clashed with residents from Los Angeles to Chicago to Minneapolis. |
| 0:50.2 | Arrest as many people that touch you as you want to. |
| 0:53.6 | Those are the general orders. |
| 0:55.0 | Full Street! |
| 0:56.2 | Out of Green! |
| 0:57.3 | Full Street! |
| 0:58.5 | With me to discuss the film, |
| 1:01.3 | and the challenges of reporting it |
| 1:02.9 | during often chaotic and violent conditions, |
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