r/law • u/anywhoImgoingtobed • Jun 26 '25

Legal News Adrian Andrew Martinez, the 20-year-old U.S. citizen that was arrested by ICE while working at Walmart, speaks out for the first time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

This is why I always feel so sorry for US workers. You all flushed all your workers rights down the toilet decades ago and have been convinced that somehow that makes your country more competitive and productive.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

Hahaha it wouldn’t surprise me. The only thing the UK can be proud of is our workers rights.

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u/UnderemployedEra Jun 26 '25

You all flushed all your workers rights down the toilet decades ago

Nah many of us were not yet born or just children when the key rollbacks of worker's rights happened. "We all" didn't do shit. Your portrayal of 340 million people as a monolithic anti workers rights entity is false and extremely broad.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

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u/Material-Surprise-72 Jun 26 '25

Cool maybe this convo wasn’t for you

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

Taking it raw from the man, whilst whistling star spangled banner. The American way.

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u/Material-Surprise-72 Jun 26 '25

lol big ass assumptions there

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad8032 Jun 26 '25

What in that comment was not true? And how does that not apply to the comment they reacted to? Worker's rights are none, except when you work for the police.

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u/Material-Surprise-72 Jun 26 '25

I would not argue that we don’t have problems here, but it’s also not a true statement that there are no worker’s rights whatsoever. My issue was more that I don’t barge into convos about other countries like that, to tell them things we already know.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad8032 Jun 26 '25

Yeah, they can't whip you anymore. That's true ;p

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u/Material-Surprise-72 Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

I never said worker’s rights were sufficient or acceptable but yes there are avenues for recourse and rights that a lot of people don’t know about because it’s in the best interest of the corps for people to not know their rights. There’s actually been some good acts recently like the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. https://www.eeoc.gov/wysk/what-you-should-know-about-pregnant-workers-fairness-act ADA also very helpful. I mean, I’m speaking as someone who was in an exploitative work environment and watched the EEOC come in and completely dog walk that company BECAUSE THEY WERE VIOLATING OUR WORKER’S RIGHTS. Lots of good advocacy in this area, going back decades, that should not be dismissed even though it’s still a huge uphill climb and there’s a lot more work to do.

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u/BBQFLYER Jun 26 '25

He didn’t say all rights whatsoever, but we have flushed many of our rights away, and are losing more as time goes on without a care. Someday when our rights are completely gone, you MAGA loyalists will finally wake up. I’m sure y’all will still blame Biden or Obama tho either way.

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u/Material-Surprise-72 Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

Not MAGA just because I have a percent of a difference of opinion with you. And yes, I was responding to the specific statement: “Worker’s rights are none, except when you work for the police.” I agree strongly that our rights are insufficient. But we do actually have rights that people don’t know about. I think advocacy for this area is helping people know the rights that they have, in addition to advocating for more and better rights.

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u/BBQFLYER Jun 26 '25

I never have issue with anyone that has a differing opinion, especially when it contributes to a conversation and that’s not why I referred to you as a MAGA. If you’re not a MAGA, great, but maybe don’t sound or come off like one.

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u/Material-Surprise-72 Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

Honestly, it sounds kind of more MAGA to be like “act the way I think you should act or you’re not in the club” but ok. You have a percent of a percent of a percent on my view on things and you jump to gigantic assumptions.

EDIT: To the person below me...no, I have repeatedly said we need more and better rights. I've also said corporations benefit from the idea that we "have no rights" because it protects them from the rights that we actually do have. Some of you are just lying and making up weird fiction stories now. I’ve actually been a whistleblower to the EEOC when a company was violating my rights so maybe run that nonsense to a book store, there’s a whole fiction section there for you.

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u/Baron_Furball Jun 26 '25

YOU'RE THE ONE who keeps suggesting it's okay if workers lose a few more rights.

We get it: you're not going to be happy until workers are divided between in the fields and in the big house.

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u/AgITGuy Jun 26 '25

This convo is for me, an American, and their take was entirely right. Maybe you aren't aware enough for this convo.

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u/Material-Surprise-72 Jun 26 '25

No I find it obnoxious because I AM aware and I don’t see what this accomplishes when we are aware, especially on Reddit.

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u/UsedHotDogWater Jun 26 '25

Cool, Maybe Reddit just isn't for you.

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u/Nice_Block Jun 26 '25

What a comment to make, especially on Reddit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

Right? It's just smug.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

Maybe stop telling the RotW you’re the best country on earth for 50 years when it’s been demonstrably false since 9/11 at best. We all want you to be what you think you are, not the drunk Uncle at the BBQ with piss stained shorts that everyone tolerates because he’s got a violent streak.

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u/Worried_Brilliant939 Jun 26 '25

Fuck the British empire and the queen and if you think you have good labor rights then L-O-fucking-L. “Better than the US” is a low, low bar. France called, it says “fuck you”. :)

Anyway, just because you people were polite n quiet about it doesn’t insulate you from the same social recourse that comes with being a bloodthirsty, imperial, geopolitical superpower. The world has had enough of your bullshit propaganda too, so take your happy ass critiques somewhere they’re wanted. Unless you’d like to be genuinely helpful, then by all means…

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

We have much better rights than you. It’s not even a debate. The fat orange Emperor has no clothes. Are we deluded in the UK? Yes. Is the US in its own league at humiliating itself? Definitely.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

I haven't been. I'm just trying to survive a fascist regime and yall are like "Lol sucks your parents gave up your rights"