11-25-2025, 09:38 PM
Obie - It looks like if you do it all legally, you don't have a problem with ICE.
That's some impressive cherry picking - should get out in the fields and put those skills to work! Or could try instead to not create broad generalizations from individual examples - because, again, SIASD. As a counterpoint from the same article:
https://bigislandnow.com/2025/11/03/busi...fee-farms/
"Armando Rodriguez, owner of Aloha Star Coffee Farm in Kailua-Kona, said he lost between 20% and 30% of his crop this year.
“There wasn’t enough (pickers) to go around,” Rodriguez said. “If you don’t get it in time, the cherries dry on the plant and fall.”
...
Usually, Rodriguez said, his farm gets extra help from the mainland during picking season. However, a couple with green cards (official U.S. documents that prove they can legally work in the country) who come annually to work on the farm did not this year because they were afraid of being detained at the airport."
kalakoa - ICE arrests citizens too...
Only those of a "swarthy" complexion though so that's totally fine as it passes the U.S. "History and Traditions" legal test. Just the sort of harassment some folks never need to worry about experiencing so things are working as many desired, voted-for, and intended.
That's some impressive cherry picking - should get out in the fields and put those skills to work! Or could try instead to not create broad generalizations from individual examples - because, again, SIASD. As a counterpoint from the same article:
https://bigislandnow.com/2025/11/03/busi...fee-farms/
"Armando Rodriguez, owner of Aloha Star Coffee Farm in Kailua-Kona, said he lost between 20% and 30% of his crop this year.
“There wasn’t enough (pickers) to go around,” Rodriguez said. “If you don’t get it in time, the cherries dry on the plant and fall.”
...
Usually, Rodriguez said, his farm gets extra help from the mainland during picking season. However, a couple with green cards (official U.S. documents that prove they can legally work in the country) who come annually to work on the farm did not this year because they were afraid of being detained at the airport."
kalakoa - ICE arrests citizens too...
Only those of a "swarthy" complexion though so that's totally fine as it passes the U.S. "History and Traditions" legal test. Just the sort of harassment some folks never need to worry about experiencing so things are working as many desired, voted-for, and intended.