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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.