What Next - The Volunteers Taking on ICE
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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Having successfully gotten their photo ops, the National Guard receded from the streets of Los Angeles, but an aggressive border patrol, with an eye on raising arrest numbers, has taken their place. In the South Bay, an activist group has formed to monitor where raids are happening, who’s conducting them, and try to help residents keep themselves safe.
Guest: Alexander Sammon, politics writer for Slate.
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| 0:47.6 | Earlier this month, Slate's Alex Salmon found himself in a rec center parking lot in outer Los Angeles. |
| 0:58.8 | He was about to watch a covert operation unfold in real time, and the sun had not even come up yet. |
| 1:06.1 | I think I rolled into the parking lot around 545. |
| 1:09.3 | You needed a passcode, right? |
| 1:11.4 | Yep, yep. So I rolled in there at 5 around 545. You needed a passcode, right? Yep, yep. |
| 1:12.4 | So I rolled in there at 545 in the pitch dark and someone asked me if I was there for the |
| 1:16.0 | Knitting Club. |
| 1:18.4 | The so-called Knitting Club was actually a group called the Harbor Area Peace Patrol. |
| 1:24.5 | Every morning, they go to local schools, donut shops, home depots, and look for signs of law enforcement. |
| 1:31.5 | Then they push messages out on Instagram, declare a location clear, or not. |
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