Island Coffee farms looked at by ICE officials.

[snorkle]

Well these local immigrants just need to donate $500,000 to the first family and it'll all be legal!

Good deeds and community work pale in comparison to legal money in our corrupt and biased system.

[VancouverIslander]

I thought coffee pickers were paid by the pound. Piece work is a great way to be paid. Work harder, make more money. I did tree planting for several years and it was one of the best jobs I had for several reasons. My body would probably be broken down by now if I'd kept doing it, but for a while it was great money even if it was the hardest physical labour I've ever taken on.

Me ka ha`aha`a,
Mike

[leilanidude]

Well these local immigrants just need to donate $500,000 to the first family and it'll all be legal!
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Snorkle - the investment program for fast-track citizenship was started under the Obama administration...

https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-c...investment

[birdmove]

Just so happens I'm reading the Grapes of Wraith again, after first reading it maybe 40-45 years ago. Maybe my favorite book of all time. Wages, supply and demand, organizing, and much more.

Jon in Keaau/HPP

[Anxious Messiah]

quote:

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Originally posted by leilanidude

Well these local immigrants just need to donate $500,000 to the first family and it'll all be legal!
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Snorkle - the investment program for fast-track citizenship was started under the Obama administration...

https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-c...investment

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Obama was President in 1990?


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[kalakoa]

immigrants just need to donate $500,000

For $500K, lots of places will give you "economic citizenship", and you can probably do better than today's USA.

[punaticbychoice]

kalakoa @ 18:27:33, 6/8/2017-
I noticed.
And agree with you.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

What these farmers should do, is register their company into the program, which will allow the benefits office to funnel employees their way.
The program will even pay a portion of the wages back to the company as an incentive to give people a chance to be productive.

It's clear a Big Island coffee farm is where we should be investing our money. Free employees, and the government pays you to hire them! On top of that, the competition is so daft and dim that they'd rather let 10-20% of their crop sit unharvested on the trees instead of hiring these easily available guest workers, prisoners, and government assistance beneficiaries.

The investment must be relatively reasonable too, as our government allows "illegal" workers to spend 15 years of their lives picking coffee, saving their money until they can finally start their own farm, nurturing trees and developing markets for a decade or so, only to finally get kicked out of the country when their hard work starts to pay off. We can help them out though, by buying their coffee farm for pennies on the dollar, so the former owners can at least get a little something for their efforts rather than lose everything. We'd be doing them a favor.

Wake up and smell the coffee folks.

[kalakoa]

saving their money ... only to finally get kicked out of the country

They get a refund of all the SS/FICA/Medicare taxes paid into the system, right?

[leilanidude]

http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/06/09...ion-delay/

"A Hawaii coffee farmer who entered the United States illegally from Mexico nearly three decades ago has been granted a 30-day reprieve on a deportation order.

Andres Magana Ortiz, 43, must return to the country he left at age 15 if efforts to halt his deportation aren’t successful, said his lawyer, James Stanton."

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A delay on what should have happened years ago.