Unlike in 2025, a potpourri of bills to protect immigrants and limit local cooperation with ICE are advancing through the Legislature.

Activists say there’s a way out of the agreement with the FBI if the council really wants to take it.

County’s agreement with FBI provokes alarm among activists and, now, council members

Lawmakers were surprised by his comments, which came after a rally at the Capitol where hundreds protested ICE and the killings of protesters.

Updated tallies are not yet complete but already eclipse those in 2024. Data show immigration arrests are increasingly likely to take place at ICE offices and at the state’s civil court houses.

Hawaiʻi is one of 22 states that have called the USDA’s demand for food stamp recipients’ information unprecedented and unlawful.

Advocates seek to limit cooperation with ICE and to rein in the agency’s actions amid a major increase in immigration arrests locally.

None of the 44 workers detained that day ended up seeking asylum. Their employer, a local janitorial contractor, has faced federal scrutiny before.

The federal immigration enforcement agency was in West Maui reportedly searching for a non-resident.

The Mexican citizen had pleaded guilty and was convicted of illegally reentering the United States.