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Well-Respected Coffee Farmer in Hawaii Deported to Mexico
MSN / NBC ^ | July 10, 2017

Posted on 07/10/2017 6:35:39 PM PDT by SMGFan

A coffee farmer in Hawaii who appealed his deportation order in federal court was forced to leave the island late Friday, after a last-ditch effort to remain with his wife and children was denied, according to NBC-affiliate KNHL.

Andres Magana Ortiz said goodbye to his wife and his three children at Kona International Airport late Friday after the Department of Homeland Security rejected his lawyer's petition to grant him legal status because he is married to a U.S. citizen, KNHL said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: crime
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Inspiration for self-deportation?
1 posted on 07/10/2017 6:35:39 PM PDT by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan
Why aren't they going with him?

I thought it was "for better or worse" not unless he has to move.

2 posted on 07/10/2017 6:38:10 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

They don’t call them anchor babies for nothing.

They’ll still be his ticket back in if at all possible.


3 posted on 07/10/2017 6:39:46 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

He’ll come back. He’s too valuable in this country. It won’t take 10 years.


4 posted on 07/10/2017 6:43:02 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear; SMGFan

I had to go back to the article to check the title. Yes, they really said “well-respected.”

From the article:

“He added that, as a judge, he understood why he had to enforce the order but, as a citizen, he struggled to see the merits of breaking up a family.

“’He will be returned to Mexico, having spent 28 years successfully building a life and family in this country,’ Reinhardt said. ‘The government forces us to participate in ripping apart a family.’”

If they love their husband/dad, why don’t they go with him?

I don’t care how “well-respected” this guy was or how “successfully” he built a “life and family” in this country.

He’s a common thief.


5 posted on 07/10/2017 6:43:49 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: DoughtyOne
Yeah, but I would think that if you wanted to tug at the heart strings wifey and rug rats would go with you.

You are forcing an American woman and children to live in the hellhole of Mexico to keep their family together. You fiends!

As it is it seems that they are not committed to being a family unless it is in the US. Sort of lowers the sympathy level in us hardhearted types who have followed our spouses as they went from country to country.

6 posted on 07/10/2017 6:44:44 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: SMGFan
Reinhardt said he was forced to turn down the request to delay the deportation "because we do not have the authority to grant it."

Since when did that ever stop them?
Is this the begining of a return to sanity?

7 posted on 07/10/2017 6:45:04 PM PDT by ex91B10
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Bet you could find 10 US citizens who could do his job better than he did inside of a week.


8 posted on 07/10/2017 6:46:40 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: SMGFan

What an opportunity!
If he figures out how to grow Kona in Mexico he’ll be the richest man on Earth.


9 posted on 07/10/2017 6:46:44 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: SMGFan
according to NBC-affiliate KNHL.

KNHL, virtual and VHF digital channel 5, is a television station in Hastings, Nebraska,?????

You would think something like this would come from KHNL, Honolulu

10 posted on 07/10/2017 6:49:27 PM PDT by Chuckster ("Them Rag Heads just ain't rational" Curly Bartley 1973)
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To: SMGFan

Buy-bye!


11 posted on 07/10/2017 6:49:29 PM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: SMGFan

The guy wasn’t a US citizen?
Did he have a green card?


12 posted on 07/10/2017 6:50:01 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: SMGFan

If he had been a poorly respected coffee grower, no one would have cared?


13 posted on 07/10/2017 6:50:08 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: SMGFan

Juan Valdez didn’t need no stinkin’ passport...


14 posted on 07/10/2017 6:50:48 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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To: thecodont

The US should never have allowed citizenship for the children of illegals. The entire family should be deported because they harbored the illegal.


15 posted on 07/10/2017 6:55:02 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee

I agree that would have been Ideal answer but stories like this have a good feel about them every time I hear them


16 posted on 07/10/2017 7:02:38 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: txrefugee

Pardon, but what is the legal justification for anchor bastards in the 1st place? The 14th amendment creator explicitly mentioned that just being born here isn’t enough. Subject to the jurisdiction and all that.


17 posted on 07/10/2017 7:12:57 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: txrefugee

Pardon, but what is the legal justification for anchor bastards in the 1st place? The 14th amendment creator explicitly mentioned that just being born here isn’t enough. Subject to the jurisdiction and all that.


18 posted on 07/10/2017 7:13:24 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: mrsmith
If he figures out how to grow Kona in Mexico he’ll be the richest man on Earth.

Oh, you might be able to grow it, but with the different soil, climate, precipitation and altitude it wouldn't taste the same. Sort of like growing Havana tobacco near Windsor Locks, CT (where they grow cigar wrapper).
19 posted on 07/10/2017 7:17:29 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: thecodont
A Hawaiian judge forced to uphold the law? How unusual. Of course he took the opportunity to wring his hands and slobber over the illegal alien. Boo, hoo, hoo!

20 posted on 07/10/2017 7:17:47 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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