and alan or the attorney for at american immigration lawyers association. thanks for joining us gentlemen. good to be with you. so let's start with you. what do you make of these? are the sheriff's comments? and is he contradicting himself when he says he cares about the safety of his community? regardless? if they're an immigrant or a citizen, shouldn't we focus on reprimanding criminals? yeah, 1st of all, i mean, his statement is comical on its face. he's going to enforce the laws just not the immigration laws as if those laws don't matter. on the other hand, let me say that, you know, there's now about a 20 year history of the american government working in a way that allows local jurisdictions to make decisions like this back in the bush here. or they invoked 287 g. a provision in the law that allowed a local law enforcement to act as ice agents and detain people. it was very effective. i argue a lot of people should do it and more and more to a local jurisdiction should do it. i think this is a good example of people and elected officials in certain ar