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🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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0:00.0 | At what point, if any, do you ever say, okay, this problem is way bigger than me? |
0:05.8 | Namely, you know, the immigration fucking shit show. |
0:08.8 | I've dedicated a significant portion of my life to it, and it's simply unsustainable for me to do this work forever. |
0:15.6 | I mean, I've only been doing it for like, I mean, formally as my job for two years. And then like, you know, |
0:22.0 | if you stretch back to like, you know, doing case work in law school, like maybe five years. |
0:26.4 | So there's a point, right? Or there's a, I mean, I think there's a point where I mean, I am not |
0:32.7 | someone who's especially optimistic about the law being a long term solution to social problems. And so right now, |
0:40.3 | I'm in a field where there are certain avenues within the law where you can sort of change people's |
0:45.8 | outcomes in a way that is useful to them. But I think those avenues are rapidly closing with |
0:52.8 | the way the current administration is changing |
0:55.6 | the law and policies. And frankly, it looks like that's likely to now continue for at least |
0:59.7 | four more years. So if there got to be a point where I felt like within like working as a lawyer, |
1:05.2 | I was just, you know, fiddling as Rome Burns or something, I would like to find something |
1:09.9 | else to do to try to tackle |
1:12.2 | the problem or a related problem that I felt like was more constructive. But within the legal system or |
1:17.3 | I mean, maybe within the legal system, but you know, sometimes I think about, you know, one thing that |
1:22.7 | I've kind of learned from working in immigration law is like the reporting in journalism around |
1:27.0 | immigration issues is terrible. Understandably so because like the reporting in journalism around immigration issues is |
1:28.4 | terrible. Understandably so because like the law makes no sense and so like journalists don't |
1:32.5 | understand it and they like misrepresent things constantly. So like I could see myself |
1:36.7 | potentially doing something like that if it felt like the right thing to do or I don't know. |
1:42.5 | There could be other things. things right you have a bit of |
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