Delano Squires
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Good to be here. Good to be with you, Megan.
Yeah, I actually live in Prince George's County, not too far from Hyattsville. So yeah, I'm very familiar sort of with the political climate there. This has been, I think, for people who are not following the news closely, a very confusing case because there are different perspectives going back and forth, right? Aside from the propaganda in terms of him being a Maryland man, right?
Sort of obfuscating his legal status, right? It's okay. Is he a gang member? Is he not a gang member? Has he had his due process or has he not? Is the Supreme Court saying, is there a distinction between facilitating his return and effectuating his return? What I look at are sort of big picture issues. And I think there are ones that apply to each side. One,
On the right, I do think there's an issue of due process. And taking it out of this case, right, we're a nation of laws. People have rights. Citizens, to Steve's point, have sort of the highest class of rights. And non-citizen residents, I'm not a lawyer, so I can't speak to what that set of rights looks like. But I think there are some people who say, look,
If he can be taken off the street and sent back to El Salvador, what happens if that happens to me and my mom or my dad is on a green card? I understand those concerns.
But on the other side, for people who believe that for too long the American government, both federal and local, has prioritized the rights of criminals over the rights of law-abiding citizens, this is a moment where we have to say, you know what? We don't have the stomach to do what really needs to be done to make America safe again. And we're going to have to develop it over time.
Because if we freak out over every single incident that the media can spin in a particular way, we're never going to get anywhere. And it's ironic because, you know, President Trump was hosting, you know, the president of El Salvador, who basically said to the gangs, your time is up. I'm rounding up everybody with...
you know, extensive head and neck and arm tattoos, and I'm carting you off to jail. And for someone like me, who has openly questioned whether, you know, we could be a little bit more innovative in some of our criminal justice policies to minimize the sort of third party effects to innocent citizens. I look at that and say, wow, this guy's doing something that in some respects I can get behind.
But I also know that that's not the way we do things in America. So there's sort of a tension there. And I think if you ask the average American citizen, hey, if you could snap your finger today and lock up every single gang member, Bloods, Crips, neo-Nazis, you know, Italian mafia, Russian mafia. I think many people will say yes because we want our streets to be safe again.
So at a certain point, we're going to have to develop the stomach for this and we can't allow the media to take every individual incident and get us off track.
This is actually one of the ironies that doesn't get discussed enough, particularly when dealing with the left, is that they will simultaneously say that America is a systemically and endemically racist nation that harbors hostilities toward black people, brown people, African-Americans, Hispanic people. but then argue that more brown people from South America, Central America, need to come here.
And it's never made sense to me. Megan and Steve, if I went to a restaurant... Come to a racist hellhole, is that what you're saying? Right. If I went to a restaurant and I had terrible service and the food made me sick, the last thing I would do to other people who I love and my family is to say, well, you guys should go there as well. So... They're making an argument, right?
And they do this constantly. It's America hates black and brown people, but we should have as many, you know, come here as possible. And look, I say that my parents immigrated from the West Indies in the late 70s, early 80s.
I grew up in New York City where, you know, every third person has family that came here at some point, you know, to Steve's point, since, you know, the turn of the 20th century. But again, it's a nation of laws, and I believe every nation The immigration policy of every nation prioritizes its citizens over foreign nationals, point blank period. I don't care what the nation is.
I don't care what foreign nationals you're dealing with. The citizens should always come first. And I say that thinking of this issue as a father, right? I have responsibilities to my wife and my children. And even though we may, my wife and I may say, we want to adopt a child. And my children may say, we would love to get a new sibling.
If we tell our kids we're going to adopt one child a week for the next 15 years, at a certain point, they're going to question whether or not they're going to be enough resources, whether the character and sort of culture of our family is going to change, and how we are going to ensure that all of the children, the new children, feel some sense of togetherness in our new home.
And America's leaders have failed to do that when it comes to immigration and assimilation so that we all feel that we have, you know, we're equally vested here in this country.
Well, to be frank, I was surprised that bail was set at a million dollars. For context, Dylann Roof's bail was set at a million dollars for the gun charges, not for the murders he committed, not for the nine murders in Charleston, South Carolina, but on the gun charges. So a million always sounded high to me. If Carmelo Anthony had a long criminal record, then I think it would be different.
I think his entire case is going to hinge on his claim that he was acting in self-defense. A jury will have to hear evidence to substantiate that claim, and they will decide whether or not there's any basis to that claim. I think, this is my personal opinion, this case has moved from a local case to a national case because of the racial dynamics at play.
Correct, correct. And it's unfortunate that It seems as if many of the conservatives who typically say, let's wait to hear all the facts, let's get all the evidence, let's let a jury of this person's peers make a decision, have rust to judgment in terms of motives, in terms of what happened or didn't happen. And I've...
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