A DHS task force was created specifically to target volunteers giving immigrants in Southern California free medical care. From threatening phone calls and stalking, to organizers being pepper-sprayed, rammed by vehicles and their homes raided, VC Defensa organizer Lainy Yompian joins Zoe Alexandra and Rania Khalek to unpack Task Force Group 4 – and more than a year of escalating repression against unpaid volunteers tracking ICE activity and providing free medical and mental health care to families under attack. It’s all happening under NSPM-7, the Trump administration’s directive branding left-wing organizing as domestic terrorism. Beginning with the 2025 raid on Glass House Farms in Camarillo that killed Jaime Alanis, Ventura County has become ground zero for some of the most intense federally sanctioned, anti-immigrant violence of Trump’s second term. Yompian explains why VC Defensa believes the way forward isn’t retreat but unity: She previews this Sunday’s La Defensa del Pueblo: A Summit to End the Terror Against the People in Oxnard, bringing together immigrant rights groups, faith leaders, and labor unions from across Southern California. BreakThrough News will stream the event live on YouTube, Sunday September 6 starting at 2pm ET. Watch full episodes of BT Live, join breakthroughnews.org as a member today! #breakthroughnews

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