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- Good evening, Harvard! Please welcome our guest speaker—immigration & employment lawyer who is also the founder of the ABC non-profit..Dr. Kate! Did you have any questions for her?
- Yes! What's your story behind practicing both immigration and employment law?
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- At the age of 9, my family and I moved to the United States from Asia in hopes my parents could give me a better life and more opportunities. My father was our breadwinner, and he worked as an English professor for a local college.
- Alright, let's go Kate! You ready?
- Work? But you were up all night teaching!
- Yes!
- Back then racism seemed to be normal. I saw how my dad endured it everyday, and he always had a smile on his face doing so. It was his way to not let them get to him.
- This foreigners must be carrying diseases from wherever they came from..
- Go back to where you came from! You're not going to eat my dog, aren't you? Quit stealing our jobs, you ch*nk!
- On hist first day of teaching, his students walked out on him as they didn't like the idea of being taught English by someone who doesn't have it as their native language. Being an English professor, my dad spoke perfect and proper English, only he just had a bit of an accent. His boss wanted to have him laid off but couldn't find anyone to replace him.
- Welcome to English 1301! My name is Professor Mu.
- What's this guy doing here teaching English? He's not even from here.
- Yeah, he's the one who needs teaching. Let's get out and find another one.
- Although being walked out by students was one thing, my dad was bothered by another. We came from a remote town in Asia where my dad was the only one who can teach English, so my dad had to teach them in the night time due to the time differences. But as he taught, he couldn't help but think if his teachings left the same motive to his students. If he taught them English, they would be motivated to move abroad. If they did, no professionals will be left in our hometown. I realized that immigration and labor force goes sideways. While the receiving country gets workers, the origin country that are more likely developing countries, always lose workers.
- Immigrants make up for this country's labor shortage. I have reason to believe the rising labor shortage now is caused by shortage on immigration. I became a lawyer to fight for the people who helped build this country, and I founded my organization that helps developing countries hoping I can make up for not being there.
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