The Bicker Board

[Durian Fiend]

workers unloaded 100-pound bags of coffee at a mill on a recent Sunday.  “There is a lot of work here, and you can make good money…
He said he made $400 a day working the harvest,

Question:
Do you think Mexicans & Hondurans in Kona are taking jobs from young unemployed Ka’u residents?  Who could drive to work every day? Will they do this work?

If the coffee farmers go out of business because of a policy that deports their coffee pickers, does this create businesses in America, or bankrupt them?  Increase employment or decrease? 

Make coffee more affordable or less affordable?

  Would you care to answer your own questions?   

While reading another NYT story/interview today, this one about plummeting birth rates everywhere in the world except for sub Saharan Africa, it occurred to me that deporting young immigrants is an especially bad idea unless they are in fact criminals.   Filling factory jobs and coffee fields with young white Americans seems highly unrealistic.