Immigration

Mass Deportations Ensnare Military Members, Veterans (Photo by Sydney Lovan/Cronkite

Mass Deportations Ensnare Military Members, Veterans

As the second Trump administration engages in its campaign of mass deportations, military experts and veterans say immigrant troops and their relatives are once again targets.

Immigration Raids Throw Long Shadow Over Big Island Coffee Harvest Jeremy Hay/Civil Beat/2025

Immigration Raids Throw Long Shadow Over Big Island Coffee Harvest

As their workers are arrested and deported, flee the country or stay away, coffee farmers are struggling to bring in a bumper crop.

Immigrant Sent Cash To Family In Mexico; ICE Used That To Nab Him On Oʻahu Bryan Cox/ICE via AP/2017

Immigrant Sent Cash To Family In Mexico; ICE Used That To Nab Him On Oʻahu

Experts say it’s the first time they know of that money transfer records have been used to trace someone purely for reentering the U.S. illegally, in this case 17 years ago.

Hawaiʻi Public Defender Urges Governor To Bar Cops From Working With ICE Bryan Cox/ICE via AP/2017

Hawaiʻi Public Defender Urges Governor To Bar Cops From Working With ICE

Call to issue an executive order echoes legislation that failed this year but raises questions about autonomy of local law enforcement.

ICE Is Moving Immigrants Arrested On The Mainland To Honolulu Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2015

ICE Is Moving Immigrants Arrested On The Mainland To Honolulu

Immigration lawyers contend that people who are sent far from where they were detained are being denied effective legal representation.

As Immigrant Arrests Rise, Hawaiʻi Political Leaders Condemn ICE Tactics Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat

As Immigrant Arrests Rise, Hawaiʻi Political Leaders Condemn ICE Tactics

Rep. Ed Case, the lone holdout, said criticisms didn’t capture his or constituents’ views on immigration.

ICE Takes Aim At Immigrant Kids In Big Island’s Coffee Belt Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

ICE Takes Aim At Immigrant Kids In Big Island’s Coffee Belt

President Trump has said he wants to deport hardened criminals. But on Hawaiʻi, agents are snaring undocumented children and their adult relatives.

Hawaiʻi Cops Said They Don’t Have Agreements With ICE. They Do David Croxford/Civil Beat/2025

Hawaiʻi Cops Said They Don’t Have Agreements With ICE. They Do

Advocates fear the agreements will be a slippery slope to local police becoming more involved in immigration enforcement under the Trump administration.

Divided Big Island Council Signs Off On Police MOUs with Feds David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024

Divided Big Island Council Signs Off On Police MOUs with Feds

The council added language that the agreements don’t authorize local officers to enforce immigration laws

Big Island Committee Punts Approval Of Police MOUs With Feds To Full Council Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

Big Island Committee Punts Approval Of Police MOUs With Feds To Full Council

Police chief says enforcing immigration law is not his department’s role.