Total Hell Breaks Loose as Trump Blows Up Streets

10 Aug 2025 · 25 min · 10 chapters

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In short

The episode argues that ICE and other DHS actions under Donald Trump amount to violent, discriminatory “raids” and intimidation, including at workplaces and schools, and claims this is part of an effort to “disappear” people.

Guests

none are named in the transcript; it’s presented as commentary by the host/ Midas Touch Network with embedded local-news clips.

Key claims

ICE detains undocumented people and even U.S. citizens (including a pregnant woman) and uses “wellness checks” as pretext to access homes/schools; raids harm families and school attendance.

Notable examples

Gwilton Guamariga, a volunteer firefighter in Port Chester, detained despite no criminal record while citizenship was pending; a mother detained near Camarena Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving two children in a car in 100-degree heat; Sabrina Medina, a 5.5-month pregnant U.S. citizen with twins, allegedly pressured to inform on her undocumented husband during an ICE encounter; alleged camera-tearing “wellness check” in Burbank; and reports of agents seeking first graders at LAUSD schools.

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The Detention of Gwilton Guamariga

0:11 to 1:15

Discussion on the case of a volunteer firefighter detained by ICE.

“This is among the most important videos I think we do here at the Midas Touch Network where we document what is taking place across the country as it is caught on camera.”

Family Impact: Guamariga's Arrest

1:15 to 3:24

Exploration of the emotional impact on Guamariga's family following his detention.

“and father as he left the house for work.”

ICE Arrests a Mother at School

3:24 to 4:26

Details of ICE arresting a mother during routine school drop-off.

“Now the next video I want to share with you involves ICE arresting a mother outside of an elementary school during morning drop-off with her two kids in the backseat.”

Community Reactions to School Arrest

4:26 to 6:14

Parents' reactions and the effects of ICE actions in school zones.

“Part of this road was blocked Wednesday morning.”

Sabrina Medina's Disturbing Encounter

6:14 to 10:06

A recount of Sabrina Medina's traumatic arrest by ICE while pregnant.

“Now, this next video I want to play for you involves ICE detaining a U.S.”

Sabrina Medina's Disturbing Encounter

10:14 to 10:32

A recount of Sabrina Medina's traumatic arrest by ICE while pregnant.

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ICE Operations and Wellness Checks

14:00 to 15:06

Explore the troubling tactics used by ICE during wellness checks.

“She did not want to tell us what offense.”

Concentration Camps and Operation Trojan Horse

15:06 to 17:20

Learn about the construction of concentration camps and the deceptive tactics used by ICE.

“Look, there's some ICE agents and they're trying to arrest people and they're not It's supposed to.”

Federal Agents Targeting Schools

17:20 to 19:24

Discuss the alarming visits by federal agents to elementary schools and their implications.

“And then going to West Coast, from East Coast to West Coast, here you have the Trump Gestapo in Penske trucks as part of Operation Trojan Horse in MacArthur Park.”

Fascism in America: A Dire Warning

19:24 to 21:06

Understand the broader implications of these actions as a sign of rising fascism in the U.S.

“These agents were stopped, questioned and turned away by principals at Lillian Elementary and Russell Elementary schools, both in the Florence Graham neighborhood.”
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0:00Ben Meiselas:All hell is breaking loose in the streets of the United States as Donald Trump's Gestapo ICE agents are attacking and disappearing migrants and citizens. This is among the most important videos I think we do here at the Midas Touch Network where we document what is taking place across the country as it is caught on camera. Here's what I want to share with you first, how ICE detained a volunteer firefighter after 30 years of service in the United States. His application for citizenship was still being processed, but he always insisted on serving his community. ICE agents swooped into the neighborhood and handcuffed him on his way to work as a firefighter.

0:47Ben Meiselas:You will hear him cry out for his wife in the video. His name is Gwilton Guamariga. He has no criminal record. He's lived in the United States since fleeing Ecuador at the age of 15. His wife and three children hope he will be allowed to complete the application process at his home in Port Chester, New York. This is the type of people that Donald Trump's Gestapo is attacking. Here play this clip. ICE agents swooping into a neighborhood in Westchester County and detaining a husband and father as he left the house for work. He's a volunteer firefighter and has lived in the community for decades.

1:25Tonight, Iowa News reporter Safan Kim with his family's fight to get him back. The tears rolling down Rosa Shagwe's face, bursting through the floodgate, that is now her broken heart. Since she was 15 years old in Ecuador, she and her husband were inseparable until ICE agents detained him last week as he left his house in Portchester, headed to work. With his hands cuffed behind his back, 43-year-old Milton Guamarigua can be seen yelling his wife's name, but Rosa never heard his cries. No idea at the time what was happening. Guamarigua works as a marble stone installer and is a volunteer firefighter in Portchester.

2:08The father of three volunteers because he is undocumented, so he can't be paid. But his family says he serves his community because he wants to be more. He was recently trying to go back to college to get a degree in IT. My younger sister, who's eight, she asked for my father every single night and we lied to her and told her that he's on vacation or like a work trip. And for that reason, he's not able to come home. Jocelyn admits her father crossed the border illegally when he was 15 years old. But she says in the almost 30 years since he's been here, He has never gotten into any trouble. She says he is not a violent criminal.

2:47We reached out to DHS but have not heard back. His family says he is currently being held at Calhoun County Correctional Center in Michigan. They say he was in the process of applying for his citizenship, and they hope he'll be allowed instead to complete that process and be released. Honestly, it's hard not to break down because I know my mom's already struggling a lot, And she has my two younger siblings that are both still in school. And we're just trying to honestly figure out how we can make everything work until my dad comes out and hopefully comes home. In Port Chester, Sefan Kim, Channel 7, Eyewitness News.

3:27Ben Meiselas:Now the next video I want to share with you involves ICE arresting a mother outside of an elementary school during morning drop-off with her two kids in the backseat. You don't think something like that can happen in front of the school, said one parent. Another parent said she's scared by the news, even though a U.S. citizen, because she looks Mexican. And if you look Latino, you get attacked by Trump and ICE. He hates Latinos and Mexicans. He just attacks you. Arrests like this have a corrosive effect on schools. One study found that immigration raids have led to a nearly 25 % drop in school attendance across parts of California.

4:09Ben Meiselas:The principal confirmed that the two children left in the backseat were students at Camarena Elementary School in Chula Vista, California. Just think about that. They take the mom, the kids are left in the backseats in sweltering 100 degree weather? Here, play this clip. Part of this road was blocked Wednesday morning. Parents trying to drop off their kids at school watched as ICE agents handcuffed a woman just a block away from the playground. Video shows immigration enforcement agents in bulletproof vests getting out of unmarked cars with flashing police lights near Camarena Elementary in Chula Vista.

4:46I'm surprised that they didn't chose to do it at that time in that area. It was around 8 a.m. on Wednesday. The cars on the road filled with kids waiting to get dropped off at school. Yeah, it was just surprising. I was like, wow, it's happening right here. Ashley Sina says she saw ICE agents pull over and detain the driver of a white Tesla. I saw them pull out a lady from her car and she was in handcuffs and they just brought her over to the SUV. Sina says there was a little boy and girl in the car talking to agents. Chula Vista Elementary School District confirmed the children are students at Camarena Elementary.

5:23The district says it's providing resources and support for the children, but could not confirm their location. You don't think that something like that would happen, like, on the way to school, in front of the school. I mean, this is a very nice neighborhood. The superintendent sent out this letter to families in the district, emphasizing this incident happened outside school property. The letter reads, there are protocols in place that limit law enforcement from accessing school campuses. It says officials are only permitted to interact with students if there's an immediate threat to campus safety.

5:56I know they've been around people, you know, posted on the Ring app that ICE is, you know, at the Target or the Walmart. And so, I mean, they're just doing their job. Federal law currently allows immigration enforcement near schools, churches and hospitals. But agents are required to provide a warrant in certain private areas of campuses. Perla Shaheen, ABC 10 News.

6:15Ben Meiselas:Now, this next video I want to play for you involves ICE detaining a U.S. citizen, a five-and-a-half-month pregnant mother of twins. Then agents attempt to blackmail her, saying she'd only get released if she gives info on her husband. You may recognize her. Her name is Sabrina Medina. She's the same woman who had her house raided by ICE back in June when Kristi Noem was shooting those cosplay videos of herself. Noam was outside waiting for the photo op. Medina said of this recent encounter with ICE, I told my daughters to run. They already used my mom against me. Could you imagine what they'll do with my daughter?

6:56Ben Meiselas:Here, play this clip. There is Sabrina Medina, and that is where a five and a half month pregnant mother was just released. Now, as you take a look at this picture, let us remind you of what took place back in June. That is when Sabrina, 28 year old who says she is a U.S. citizen, claims she was showering when ICE agents suddenly entered her home. Not only that, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was there with ICE agents outside of the home. Now, they said they wanted her undocumented husband who did serve time for a violent offense. But we don't know exactly what that violent offense was.

7:36That day, she was questioned, not released. Now listen. Again, we are just learning this as we are going on air as she tells us what happened today when she was taken away by ICE agents. He said that they're after my husband because he doesn't have papers and he has a criminal record from nine years ago. And they told me that if I turn my husband in, I was going to get released. There's several departments looking for your husband. And she's like, and this is outrageous. She's like, it's already been so much that he's not even caught already. We need to get him. Turn him in. Turn him in and we'll release you.

8:17And I was like, I don't know where he's at. Then she told me, think about it. She's like, think about it. He's going to be your best bet because if somebody else gets him, he's going to get hurt. My daughter, I told her to run. I told her run and they were like, how could you do that? I'm like, you guys are not taking my daughter. Imagine they're trying to use my mom against everything. Imagine what they would have done with my daughter. So again, as you look at this live picture right now, this is Sabrina speaking with NBC4 as well as our partner Telemundo 52. You may have a lot of questions.

8:49Some of them we still cannot answer for you. We can tell you that Sabrina did tell us that her

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10:25Ben Meiselas:No questions asked. Jolie is also available on Amazon and select Ulta stores. Get yours now. Now here's Sabrina Medina and her mother being arrested by ICE. Both are U.S. citizens. She is five and a half months pregnant with twins. Her other daughter managed to run away and find safety with other relatives. This raw footage was obtained by L.A. Taco. Here play this clip. Your name? Hey, record. What is it? My name is Sabrina Medina. Sabrina Medina. What's your name? Elizabeth Medina, they taking me. Police investigators are never worth your arrest. I'm an American citizen. Why is she being detained?

11:37are you okay what's your name my your name is okay armando can i have a phone number No, it's fine. It's fine

12:00Why

12:04Why is it being detained?

12:18Ben Meiselas:Now, just as a reminder, this is the local news coverage of some of the first ICE raids back on June 12th, 2025. I have never heard that Kristi Noem is going to be at somebody's house. A whole team, a lot of people like raiding my house like it was a show, Sabrina Medina said. This is what happened back in June. And then she just had this interaction again. Play this clip. We never heard that Kristi Noem is going to be at somebody's house. Whole team, a lot of people like raiding my house like it was a show. Sabrina Medina showed a surveillance video of agents searching her Huntington Park home at 6 a.m.

12:53this morning. She captured Secretary Kristi Noem in the streets with agents. Other video shows Gnome with members of her team putting vests on as agents moved into Medina's home and the home across the street. I could tell that she was doing a full camera crew production. She was getting hair and makeup done. So she was putting on a show for people. And I really object to that. That's really not what our government should be doing. L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn, who served with Gnome in Congress, came to the neighborhood and said these operations are frightening families and children. We have kids on this block.

13:28So I'm calling on her to stop these raids in our county. They had guns and the other soldiers didn't want to put their guns down. Agents caught Medina as she was in the shower and demanded she come out. Throughout the whole process, they had to see me naked. You know, I'm getting changed. I feel humiliated. I'm pregnant. I'm scared. I'm shaking. Like what's going on? What's going to happen to me? I feel like a criminal now. So I'm four months pregnant. I'm due on November 26th. Pregnant with twins, she says agents were looking for her husband, Jorge Sabana, who she says is undocumented and did serve time for a violent offense.

14:04She did not want to tell us what offense. She shared this photo of him with the condition we blur his face. She says he wasn't home this morning. He had left last night after they argued overseeing federal agents surveying their home. I thought my baby was going to come. I thought that with all this scariness. My sugar was going to drop. I thought a lot of things, you know. I was very scared. We should also point out that agents handed Medina a complaint, not a warrant. Medina still let them inside her house. We are told that we're actually not quite sure if any arrests were made at any of these two operations.

14:39We did reach out to DHS for comment and have not heard back.

14:43Ben Meiselas:Now, in this next clip, you'll see ICE tearing down security cameras at a business in Burbank. They shatter the windows. They break down the doors to enter into the business. They said it was a wellness check. But this is the pattern that ICE uses called wellness checks as a pretext to access homes and schools and businesses to disappear people to concentration camps. Here, play the clip. Look, there's some ICE agents and they're trying to arrest people and they're not It's supposed to.

15:17Ice agents told somebody that they have to come out of a building. Right here in Burbank, California, I'm not with the lead, but in this country, we'd have ice agents right here in our own city in Burbank. They're trying to storm a person getting some illegal immigrant that didn't do anything wrong, but live here in, it was a narrow.

15:59They're breaking down the person's door to somebody's place.

16:27Ben Meiselas:now here's another image of one of the new concentration camps going up across the united states they call it fort bliss but it is a concentration camp nothing bliss about it in El Paso, Texas. This is what they're building the same way they have the Alligator Alcatraz camp. Here's the Fort Bliss concentration camp. This one's in Texas. Alligator Alcatraz, of course, is in Florida. Let me show you this. ICE is now dressing up as construction workers to kidnap laborers across the country as part of their Operation Trojan Horse is what they're calling it, where they're pretending to be other professions.

17:05Ben Meiselas:Then they jump out and then they arrest people and beat them and then put them into concentration camps. So here's Ice dressed up like a construction worker in Brewster, New York. The agent admitted to being federal law enforcement and threatens more on the way dressed in disguises. Here, play this clip. Yeah. What agency? What agency? What agency are you with? What agency are you with? What agency are you with? It is my business. I am a citizen. Okay. Okay. And then going to West Coast, from East Coast to West Coast, here you have the Trump Gestapo in Penske trucks as part of Operation Trojan Horse in MacArthur Park.

17:56Ben Meiselas:20, 30 ICE agents loaded in the truck. They jump out and they start chasing migrants, beating them, pummeling them to the ground and throwing them into concentration camps. Never to hear or speak from their families potentially ever again. Play this clip.

18:17Ben Meiselas:and here they are grabbing the necks of migrants and treating them like they're animals although animals should never be treated like this either here play this clip

18:28Ben Meiselas:and finally here's one of those other quote wellness checks or welfare checks on first graders ice raided a los angeles elementary school disguised federal agents told school staff They had the parents' permission to take kids out of class. They then tried to ID the kids to go after the unaccompanied minors who may have crossed the border. Here play this clip. Lingering fear in the LAUSD community after an unusual and disturbing visit. Several federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security showed up at two elementary schools this week demanding to talk to students. What happened next was or has Superintendent Alberto Carvalho praising school workers and demanding answers.

19:11Eyewitness News reporter Sophie Flay explains. What interest should a Homeland Security agent have in a first grader? On Monday, multiple Homeland Security agents showed up at two elementary schools in Los Angeles, according to LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho. These agents were stopped, questioned and turned away by principals at Lillian Elementary and Russell Elementary schools, both in the Florence Graham neighborhood. They wanted access to the students to determine their well-being based on, according to the agents, the fact that when they entered this country, they entered as unaccompanied minors.

19:51It is well known that these students are under the care of relatives. According to Carvalho, the agents claimed they were not part of immigration and customs enforcement. They conveyed to both principals that the parents or the legal guardians in charge of these children had provided them authorization for access to these kids in school. That is absolutely blatantly untrue. These agents asked specific questions about students ranging from first to sixth grade. The superintendent says they arrived in unmarked vehicles and wore casual clothing. When the principals attempted to write down details about their IDs, they quickly hid their IDs.

20:34All parents from these schools were notified about these incidents. Ahead of the November election, LAUSD staff were trained in protocols to protect students from federal agents showing up at schools. We wonder if this may happen at more schools, if they simply will ram through. So we're having to really lean on the principals, the workers, the teachers.

20:54Ben Meiselas:That's what's going on in the United States of America. That's what's happening. Full-fledged fascism in the United States. Horrifically dangerous here in the United States. Sad to see, but that's what's happening. We have to observe it. We have to know that's what's happening. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. Thanks for watching.

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