I'm here in Echo Park with Sheriff Robert Luna. Thank you so much for joining me this morning.

Yeah, it's great to be out here. What a beautiful day. Look at the skyline. It's gorgeous.

It's amazing. We're going to be talking this morning about Sheriff Luna's campaign for reelection

and what we have seen in the past four years from the Sheriff's Department and what might be coming next.

Thank you so much for making time to

speak with me today. So one thing that's very much on the mind of voters this year is of course

immigration. Over the past year we have seen federal immigration officers descending on

Los Angeles and unleashing some pretty brutal tactics on not only immigrants but protesters.

I would love for you to speak to what you see the Sheriff's Department role is in immigration

enforcement as well as cooperation and possibly collaboration with federal immigration agencies.

Yeah, excellent question.

And I really do understand the fear and anxiety,

because if you understand where I come from, my background,

which is important for viewers to know that,

that my father migrated here from Sinaloa, Mexico.

My mother was born here in California,

but only because her family was part of the Bracero program.

So they were farmers up in Central California.

She was born in Modesto.

And so my mom used to tell me stories when I was a child

about La Migra.

It wasn't nice back then, rounding people up, including herself,

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