5-28-26 Bonus Lunch Ep - A Chat With Congressional Candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On this bonus lunchtime episode of the Rush Hour podcast, we break down the shocking scenes unfolding at detention centers as tensions escalate and a sitting senator gets pepper sprayed during a confrontation that's raising serious questions nationwide. We dive into the political fallout, media reaction, and what this latest incident says about the current state of immigration enforcement and government accountability. Plus, an exclusive interview with congressional candidate Daria Lisa, who joins the show to discuss why she's running for New York's 13th District, the challenges facing working-class communities, and what kind of leadership she believes voters are looking for right now. Politics, chaos, and candid conversations — all packed into this special lunchtime edition of Rush Hour.
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| 0:00.0 | A U.S. Senator has been tear gassed and pepper sprayed while trying to do his job, provide |
| 0:05.5 | oversight at an ICE detention facility. And the reason why this is all going on is there's a hunger |
| 0:11.8 | strike happening because the folks that are being detained in many cases illegally are saying |
| 0:18.2 | that the food is spoiled. There's extreme heat. They're not getting medical care. |
| 0:22.1 | We're seeing absolute crimes play out in our own elected officials unable to get through those |
| 0:27.7 | doors to try to talk to people and find out what's going on. So how about this wild moment right |
| 0:33.2 | here where we have Andy Kim, again, supporting the detainees, trying to figure out what's going |
| 0:39.1 | on, pepper sprayed tear gassed, he's being, you know, their stories of people getting their |
| 0:43.9 | head split open from ice agents hitting them over the head with batons. I mean, this is what's |
| 0:49.5 | happening in our United States of America. In absolute wild time, we fight wars abroad. |
| 0:55.1 | We're kidnapping presidents and other countries |
| 0:57.8 | where the corruptions through the roof |
| 0:59.9 | and in this wild time to be alive. |
| 1:02.4 | We're watching those that our taxpayer dollars |
| 1:04.6 | are going towards funding them to help us. |
| 1:07.5 | They're the ones that are getting targeted. |
| 1:10.4 | And not only this, here we have lies being told by Mark Wayne Mullen over here, the new ice stooge from Oklahoma. And here's, you know, you can, look, you can put lipstick on a pig, you can put them in a nice suit, you can comb the hair. But the lies that they're sharing about these facilities say, oh, it's not, |
| 1:28.3 | this isn't some five-star resort. It's like, yeah, these are, these are criminal places that are |
| 1:33.9 | popping up that are poisoning adults, children, and in some cases, people that are here legally, |
| 1:42.5 | it's inhumane what's happening. |
| 1:44.6 | You said these conditions are adequate for the situation. |
| 1:48.7 | They say that the homeland is lying. |
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