Diego Luna rebukes Trump's immigration policies in first Jimmy Kimmel guest host monologue

Diego Luna let the president know exactly how he felt about his draconian immigration policy when he took over as a guest host on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday night. “Tonight, I want to address an important issue that is happening here in Los Angeles and all around the United States,” the Andor actor said in his opening monologue. “With everything going on in this country around immigration and authoritarian policies of Donald Trump, it is no small thing that a Mexican is hosting such an important show. It’s a big deal and I really hope not to fuck it up.”

The actor then took some time to reflect on his own experience in Los Angeles, sharing that he first “stepped foot in the territory known as the United States” at 20 years old following the success of Y Tu Mamá También. He now even has an Angeleno son, he shared. But, he continued, “the people that lifted me up were mostly people that had left their countries to find a new life, or the sons and daughters of immigrants that had come here in order to work and build a healthy, enjoyable and dignified life, away from their place of origin.”

“A movement of that scale, that’s not natural, not unless something is very, very wrong in the place you are coming from,” Luna continued. “Nobody leaves their land if it’s not because their survival depends on it. Nobody leaves their past behind, just for fun. But you know what? All the people that I met shared an unspoken gratitude to this country, a country that opened its doors to them.”