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Volunteers Help Monitor Street Corners for ICE Activity

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Day laborers wait for work on International Boulevard at a U-Haul in Oakland on Sept. 5, 2025. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)

In response to arrests of street vendors and day laborers by federal immigration authorities, thousands of volunteers have mobilized to ‘adopt’ a street corner. KQED’s labor correspondent Farida Jhabvala Romero takes us to one corner in East Oakland to meet the volunteers offering their time to watch out for ICE and Border Patrol agents.

This episode originally aired on Sept. 5, 2025.


Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.

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