Adrian Andrew Martinez, the 20-year-old U.S. citizen that was arrested by ICE while working at Walmart, sits down with our reporter, Aisha Wallace-Palomares, to give us insights into what he experienced. Amongst the new revelations, he shares that he was fired by Walmart.
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Walmart fires a U S citizen for being a U S citizen?
Happy to have legal protection in the more civilised parts of the planet. I at least get some sort of warning I'm going to get shit canned in Europe.
Illegal reasons are still prohibited and actionable
An employment lawyer should have a field day with this
Right to work - like most republican austerity and foolishness - has been a disaster for everyone
Huge
They should be supporting him, not firing him!
So what?!
No one deserves any of this.
We all know the criminals are wearing masks. Somebody wake me up.
We must be on an extended national strike.
This is the proven most effective way to topple a regime.
It must be inconvenient. It must upset our systems.
One day protests must now evolve.
#3E
#endautogenocide
#generalstrikeUS
#abolishICE
Seriously, Walton family and stockholders, this will get around and people will go elsewhere. You can't just ignore that your customers--the brown ones, no matter their immigration status--are being arrested. Get your heads out of your asses! /sorry, not sorry for *language*
They're trash.
The Gestapo is trash and so are the people heading the regime.
Around 13:40
I don't buy from Walmart or Amazon.
"It is not legal for your employer to fire you because you have been accused of committing a crime or have past convictions on your record unless it directly violates their legal responsibilities..."
They're subsidized to be everywhere.
Anyone remember the Oscar winning ‘Taxi to the dark side’?
And the famous quote:
“The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.”
Now they can get away with it.
fuck MAGA
And props to Adrian for standing up for what’s right, & going on camera at a time when there’s so much targeting & fear.
So Walmart fired him for 'violence' based on what the "agents" said
He can probably sue both Walmart & the "agents"
But Walmart may have plausible deniablity because they acted based on information given to them by "federal agents"
He can appeal that penalty
But Walmart may still be protected because they took action based on information from 'federal agents'
Is Walmart owned by billionaires?
It's been at least fifteen years for me.
Let’s make the manager miserable until they take him back.
Not just the income, but also the life infrastructure around the job - transport, scheduling - can be difficult to replace.
This guy may get hooked up with offers and crowdfunding but he should get his job back if he wants it.
He was the victim of an assault, not a perpetrator.
He was kidnapped from their property. That makes for an unsafe work environment.
Then they fired him even though he had multiple crimes committed against him on Walmart property.
Hopefully he can sue for all of it