Daria Liza Avila Chevalier

My opponent is spreading around me doing this because I'm running for office, but that's simply not true.

And I do have regrets on how I expressed my values on Twitter because my values are around

It's around accountability.

It's around justice.

And I think rhetoric matters.

I certainly wouldn't use a lot of the language that I used back then today.

And I think it's deeply important that we use language that is unifying, language that allows people who might not at first understand where you're coming from to

but can still hear you and can come to a place of empathy and understanding, you know, in that era, there was a lot of pressure to be, you know, woker than thou, right?

That has gotten us to a point where a lot of people groan or roll their eyes, right?

And that has been so counterproductive to the things that we're actually fighting for.

That phrase, yes.

I still believe that all deportations are wrong.

So when we're talking about things like illegal entry, we're actually talking about administrative laws, right?

We're not talking about criminal law.

And we really need to have an understanding of what it is that we are doing when we say that people who are non-citizens, who have a different status based on where they were born, why they should endure an additional form of punishment when they have already gone through the criminal system.

Yes.

And the reason I say that is because we have a criminal system.

It isn't perfect, but it exists.

And it is one that if we accept as the process by which we want to engage with these issues, right, then we need to make sure that it is one that isn't also discriminatory on the basis of where people were born.

To subject someone who has committed a crime to both a criminal system and then additionally to an immigration system that also detains them in the very same facilities that people who are convicted of criminal convictions are also held, right?