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Speaker 1: Class action is a production of I heart radio and

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Speaker 1: sound argument. I'm at Genesis Salinas. I am a tool

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Speaker 1: at St Mary's School of Law. My brother and I

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Speaker 1: are driving back to the Rio Grand Valley from San Antonio,

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Speaker 1: Texas right now being surrounded by my family, my friends,

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Speaker 1: all my relatives, especially for the holidays. It's just really

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Speaker 1: great and I also just finished my semester of law school.

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Speaker 1: We finished our finals last weekend, so I'm really excited

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Speaker 1: that my family is going to be all together again

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Speaker 1: in the valley. The valley is just such a great place.

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Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of people don't know about it.

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Speaker 1: People think that it's desert or it's Mexico or I

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Speaker 1: used to have a friend that had found in Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: and his family would ask him like do you guys

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Speaker 1: see illegals running around, and I was like what? Like,

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Speaker 1: like that's so like people don't know. People will be like, Oh,

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Speaker 1: do you carry your gun everywhere you go, like is

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Speaker 1: it dangerous? Are you scared? And and it's gonna have

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Speaker 1: been salty. But when you see get questions like that

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Speaker 1: about how dangerous it was, but it's not. I feel

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Speaker 1: safer here in the valley than I do in San Antonio,

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Speaker 1: my home and my family's home. I have dogs. That

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Speaker 1: will be worse. Yeah, my family has a pile. I

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Speaker 1: don't know why. Why bark a lot more than the

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Speaker 1: people does? I'm very close to my parents. We talk

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Speaker 1: a lot. We all communicate a lot. I think you

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Speaker 1: know my favorite memories were all of us sitting in

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Speaker 1: the living room together cracking jokes, talking about our day

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Speaker 1: and things that bothered us, things we liked. My mom

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Speaker 1: loves Christmas, loves lights and decorating and she plugs everything

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Speaker 1: unplugs everything because I don't know if he's just thinking,

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Speaker 1: like all the light bill you know, let me unplug him.

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Speaker 1: I saw this meme on instagram that showed like the

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Speaker 1: horoscope signs in like order of most festive, and my

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Speaker 1: mom's sign was like most festive, has lights on the

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Speaker 1: years round, year round, and my dad's was like the grinch,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, that makes sense. He's always

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Speaker 1: unplugging everything. If my mom didn't decorate for Christmas, he

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Speaker 1: wouldn't decorate. Like he doesn't really care. He's not about that.

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Speaker 1: So that's this is what we have. Um for Christmas.

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Speaker 1: We have and we also have Christmas cookies. Oh, there's

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Speaker 1: also an also lint. That happens. We love that. We

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Speaker 1: love it. The chest. Hi, my name is Maria. It

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Speaker 1: is true Selenas in Um Genesis. SELENA's farm also leches,

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Speaker 1: like a Mexican dessert with white rice, condensed milk cinnamon.

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Speaker 1: It's really good. I know some people will make it

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Speaker 1: and then put it in the fridge or the freezer

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Speaker 1: so that it's kind of like a Jello pastry or

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Speaker 1: like a flan pastry, but with my family we eat

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Speaker 1: it hot. We make it and then just put it

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Speaker 1: in a cup so it's nice and warm. I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of like the CHAMPO. Not Ronch is more of a

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Speaker 1: holiday dessert. So when Christmas rolls around, I always ask

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Speaker 1: my mom. She can't make it, and it's some sugar

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Speaker 1: and now I'm gonna add milk, so it starts getting there.

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Speaker 1: This is the way we like it. We don't like

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Speaker 1: it to dry more like a Yah. I'm letchen Look Genesis.

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Speaker 1: This is the way you make it. So if you

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Speaker 1: want to learn, you need to be pay attention. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna stand your weight. So it don't

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Speaker 1: be boiling and it's already can you smell it already?

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Speaker 1: It sounds trying again. And now we have a cross.

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Speaker 1: Is it your testimony today that you recognize one of

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Speaker 1: the defendants as one of the robbers, the man that

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Speaker 1: robbed me? Is that man sitting right over there, wearing

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Speaker 1: that blue jacket and those brands banking? You glasses, your honor?

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Speaker 1: May I approach the witness? Female. I am handing the witness.

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Speaker 1: Being an attorney was always my dream job, and it's

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Speaker 1: because all of my family came from Mexico and it

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Speaker 1: was an immigration attorney that helped them complete their American dream.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know her name, I don't know who

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Speaker 1: she was, um, but she really inspired me, and so

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Speaker 1: I'd like to be able to make that difference. I

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Speaker 1: want to practice personal injury, but do you immigration on

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Speaker 1: the side Pro Bono? You know when she got accepted

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Speaker 1: to law school and we cried so much because, you know,

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Speaker 1: I remember telling Genesis when she graduated with her bachelors,

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Speaker 1: I said, Genesis, you could be a lawyer, genesis, you

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Speaker 1: going to support you all the way. Genesis, where August

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Speaker 1: going to be here for you? You You know, I'm a teacher.

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Speaker 1: You know my husband, he works at a hospital, but

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Speaker 1: just later become a lawyer. Hi, Ni Um. I became

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Speaker 1: be a leader at my church. Um and my parents.

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Speaker 1: Everyone is a believer, but not a practicing Christian, and

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Speaker 1: so they didn't understand why I wanted to be there.

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Speaker 1: But I feel like church just offers a very loving community. Okay, listen,

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Speaker 1: it's awesome to have a community Um of people that

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Speaker 1: of you all every I really love this pastor that

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Speaker 1: he's gonna give the sermon today. Um, I think he

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Speaker 1: had been here for ten, fifteen years. But he is amazing.

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Speaker 1: Jesus is destined for a painful purpose. That why is important.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know, play on this day we're talking

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Speaker 1: definitely different for like the Christmas season. Uh. It kind

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Speaker 1: like Jesus purpose was painful, you know, because you start realizing,

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Speaker 1: I want to say I thought about law school. Law

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Speaker 1: Schools painful. It's been. There's a lot of great things

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Speaker 1: you know, being alone, being quarantined, studying for so many hours.

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Speaker 1: It's it's been really rough going through it and then

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Speaker 1: moving to San Antonio by myself. That was really hard.

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Speaker 1: Do you miss about? I do. It feels weird when

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Speaker 1: I don't really care how I look where I go,

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Speaker 1: how my appointment went? I don't know. It was just

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Speaker 1: I don't know people that Um but I love it.

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Speaker 1: to come back'll be like said her. Then, well, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have dinner first. Ye here at home. We were

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Speaker 1: like do the ginger bread like we're doing today. Okay, guys,

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Speaker 1: so get ready. Oh my God, we haven't done here.

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Speaker 1: So you don't know what a flight fried flower Tortilla

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Speaker 1: SALNA Jr. I'm the Father Jenesis Selena's. When jenesis first

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Speaker 1: started going to school, remb prekinder didn't know English, English

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Speaker 1: and you know, you know, she's not in this classroom.

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Speaker 1: Why on? Because do you know how to speak English?

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Speaker 1: So we'll put in another glass and I was like why?

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Speaker 1: What do you mean to don't know his beginness and

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Speaker 1: knows Spanish. What about Christis? When you workid did you

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Speaker 1: In Mexico, you know, what was it like as a

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Speaker 1: I was ten years old. So, but in Mexico, where were,

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Speaker 1: a lot. We form corn, beans, squash, candaloupe, watermelon, whatever

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Speaker 1: grandpa had like two hundred goats. So all the mediday

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Speaker 1: And the beans, well, they grew the beans. The only

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Speaker 1: we used to, you know, make the tortillas with Thesaman,

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Speaker 1: in the city and they had more traditions, more resources.

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Speaker 1: my dad. Every morning he would um wake up early,

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Speaker 1: it's falling apart. Na Genesis has just lost the competition.

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Speaker 1: Her train, her gingerbread train, has quite literally become gingerbread

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Speaker 1: just like Genesis. One day. When we were younger, how

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Speaker 1: We would open them Christmas Eve at my uncle's house

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Speaker 1: of our favorite holiday songs is called I actually don't

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Speaker 1: I really love coming home and catching up with everyone, Um,

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Speaker 1: and I feel more free, I feel more relieved being

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Speaker 1: and I'm really, Um excited to have this next month

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