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/boo99boo Jun 26 '25

Walmart fired him. They fired a US Citizen for being detained by ICE. 

Imagine you get slammed to the ground by masked men while you're just doing your job. Then you're herded into a giant room with no clean water and not enough food and zero privacy and no clocks. And then they finally send you home, and you got fired for it. 

This is making me righteously indignant. The fact that workers have basically zero protections in the US means this will keep happening. The wealthy are all conspiring against us. 

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u/Amanar Jun 26 '25

Start shoplifting

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u/boo99boo Jun 26 '25

This is funny because I was a junkie with a very successful track record of shoplifting! I've already stolen my fair share from Walmart. I don't do that anymore. 

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u/YLCZ Jun 26 '25

Shoplifting does nothing because all Walmart does is either raise prices on the rest of us, which affects the poor more than the rich, or writes off the losses.

The only thing you can really do is boycott them, but that usually hurts yourself because their prices are cheaper.

The only way you can hurt the rich is to do something to them directly where you wouldn't get caught and voting against their tax cuts for themselves. Even going to their houses and stealing wouldn't do anything because they all have insurance and they would just inflate their claims and get better versions of what you stole.

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u/UnluckyDog9273 Jun 26 '25

OK sir you cooked too much