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Kathleen Martinez

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

The state of Florida, I don't know if you've heard about this, but they're considering some kind of proposal to lower the age of child labor. Because they're losing all of their employees because they're scaring them away with ICE raids.

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Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

So Ron DeSantis was like, well, why don't we mess with the child labor law so that they can work overnight shifts during the school week so that they can actually lower the age of being eligible to work? Because we don't have anybody else to do it.

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Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

So Ron DeSantis was like, well, why don't we mess with the child labor law so that they can work overnight shifts during the school week so that they can actually lower the age of being eligible to work? Because we don't have anybody else to do it.

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Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

So Ron DeSantis was like, well, why don't we mess with the child labor law so that they can work overnight shifts during the school week so that they can actually lower the age of being eligible to work? Because we don't have anybody else to do it.

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Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

So yeah, good luck with that. Yeah. I mean, they obviously weren't thinking about their economy. But that's the problem is that someone like Ron DeSantis is not thinking with his brain or his wallet even. And you would think that he would think about you. They usually vote with their wallet in mind. But with this proposal, you're just thinking with hatred. You're just racist, right?

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Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

So yeah, good luck with that. Yeah. I mean, they obviously weren't thinking about their economy. But that's the problem is that someone like Ron DeSantis is not thinking with his brain or his wallet even. And you would think that he would think about you. They usually vote with their wallet in mind. But with this proposal, you're just thinking with hatred. You're just racist, right?

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Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

So yeah, good luck with that. Yeah. I mean, they obviously weren't thinking about their economy. But that's the problem is that someone like Ron DeSantis is not thinking with his brain or his wallet even. And you would think that he would think about you. They usually vote with their wallet in mind. But with this proposal, you're just thinking with hatred. You're just racist, right?

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Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

I mean, why are you scaring away immigrants who literally make your economy survivable? Children are not going to have these jobs. They're not going to work as hard. But logic is not a thing with these kind of people. They have so much hatred and ignorance in their hearts that they're not thinking about like, oh, you know, immigrants are better for their economy.

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Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

I mean, why are you scaring away immigrants who literally make your economy survivable? Children are not going to have these jobs. They're not going to work as hard. But logic is not a thing with these kind of people. They have so much hatred and ignorance in their hearts that they're not thinking about like, oh, you know, immigrants are better for their economy.

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Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

I mean, why are you scaring away immigrants who literally make your economy survivable? Children are not going to have these jobs. They're not going to work as hard. But logic is not a thing with these kind of people. They have so much hatred and ignorance in their hearts that they're not thinking about like, oh, you know, immigrants are better for their economy.

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Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

They're just like, I want them out because they're brown.

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Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

They're just like, I want them out because they're brown.

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Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

They're just like, I want them out because they're brown.

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Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

Yeah. I mean, and that was kind of my whole brand is like the legal field is so conservative and it's built towards white men, white conservative men. Right. So a lot of the women that have been, you know, that are in the field are, I call them pick me.

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Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

Yeah. I mean, and that was kind of my whole brand is like the legal field is so conservative and it's built towards white men, white conservative men. Right. So a lot of the women that have been, you know, that are in the field are, I call them pick me.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

Yeah. I mean, and that was kind of my whole brand is like the legal field is so conservative and it's built towards white men, white conservative men. Right. So a lot of the women that have been, you know, that are in the field are, I call them pick me.

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Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

It's like a lot of female lawyers are still trying to fit in so that they can take and they can be taken seriously by male judges and male partners. Right. And so they don't want to be as feminine where I'm like the opposite where like I'm like I'm going to embrace it. We need to change the field of law.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

It's like a lot of female lawyers are still trying to fit in so that they can take and they can be taken seriously by male judges and male partners. Right. And so they don't want to be as feminine where I'm like the opposite where like I'm like I'm going to embrace it. We need to change the field of law.

Barely Famous
Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

It's like a lot of female lawyers are still trying to fit in so that they can take and they can be taken seriously by male judges and male partners. Right. And so they don't want to be as feminine where I'm like the opposite where like I'm like I'm going to embrace it. We need to change the field of law.

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Immigration Lawyer Kathleen Martinez on Green Cards, Deportation Myths & Fighting ICE in Pink

Like I want to be living proof that like you can look a certain way and just totally surprise people and be good at your job and win cases in court.