julían: the latino community foundation is the nation's largest latino-serving foundation.ed way of san francisco, and then in 2016 it became its own independent organization that is statewide. and so, over the years we have put dollars into, we've given money to organizations, hundreds of organizations that are latina or latino led that are doing work to inform voters, to register voters, to mobilize those voters, and on top of that, economic justice and opportunity work to make sure that communities have better business opportunities, that they are able to fight for better wages and better working conditions, organizations that are working on all of that. and then, we also administer 17 different giving circles across the state of california. so, we're trying to create the largest network of latina and latino philanthropists in our nation, people who give to nonprofit organizations doing great work in their home communities. and we have those giving circles all over the state from the bay area down to our newest one in san diego. we're excited about all of that work, but

the latino community foundation is based in san francisco. its ceo is former secretary of housing and urban development julian castro, who sounded the alarm on the consequences of mass deportations. secretary castro, who is a stanford alum, spoke with nbc's damian trujillo for this week's episode of comunidad del valle. it would rip apart families. it would decimate the american economy. and if history is our judge based on the past and other operations like this, including operation, which happened many decades ago. there are even legal residents and american citizens that could possibly get caught up in this kind of mass deportation action. well, we'll continue to do a lot of the great work that we're doing. but of course, we feel a sense of urgency right now, especially to support organizations, nonprofits that are working with immigrant communities, for example, already we've approved six planning grants to support nonprofit organizations in different parts of california that serve immigrant communities directly and that seek to organize

the latino community foundation is based in san francisco. its ceo is former hud secretary julian castro, who sounded the alarm on the consequences of mass deportations. castro, who graduated from stanford, spoke with nbc's damian trujillo for this week's episode of comunidad del valle. it would rip apart families. it would decimate the american economy and if history is our judge, based on the past and other operations like this, including operation, which happened many decades ago, there are even legal residents and american citizens that could possibly get caught up in this kind of mass deportation action. well, we'll continue to do a lot of the great work that we're doing. but of course, we feel a sense of urgency right now, especially to support organizations, nonprofits that are working with immigrant communities. for example, already we've approved six planning grants to support nonprofit organizations in different parts of california that serve immigrant communities directly and that seek to organize their local communities to support

trujillo and today a one-on-one interview with former hud secretary and the new ceo of the latino community foundation on your "comunidad del valle."