# East L.A. Under Siege: Sara Hernandez on the Raids & Running for Office

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Podcast: [The Raid](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-raid-7569219)
Published: 2026-05-07T10:00:00+00:00
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Sara Hernandez — candidate for California State Senate District 26 — joins host John Carlos Frey to talk about what it's like to run for office in a district under siege. A former middle school teacher in South L.A., immigration attorney, and current president of the L.A. Community College District Board of Trustees, Sara brings a ground-level perspective to some of the most pressing issues facing East Los Angeles communities right now. She shares stories from her classroom — students caught between academic ambition and the threat of deportation — and explains why those experiences led her first to law, then to politics. The conversation covers the limits and possibilities of state-level action against federal immigration enforcement, the constitutional questions raised by ICE's use of administrative warrants, the economic case for immigration reform, the housing crisis squeezing working families out of California, and why her mother's words — "if not you, then who?" — pushed her to run. Sara also discusses her campaign on the ground: canvassing alongside rapid response networks, her key endorsements from Supervisor Hilda Solis, civil rights icon, Dolores Huerta and major labor unions, and what's at stake for communities in Boyle Heights, Pico Union, Echo Park, and beyond in the June 2nd primary. @sarahernandez.26 https://theraidpodcast.org/ Disclaimer: The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates"). The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or partic…

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