Posted on 06/01/2025 4:39:17 PM PDT by thecodont
Immigration enforcement is intensifying in Hawaii, with federal authorities making dozens of arrests in May, including at Kona’s coffee farms, which has left communities shaken.
On Maui, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents questioned in early May several Filipino teachers who are employed through a work visa program as part of a cultural and educational exchange, detaining some briefly while they were interviewed. No arrests were made in that instance, but Homeland Security Investigations Honolulu, along with federal partners, later arrested 50 people in one week during several raids across the islands of Oahu, Kauai and Hawaii.
“I think there’s a lot of fear within the community,” Jeanne Kapela, a legislator in the Hawaii House of Representatives, told SFGATE. She represents the Hawaii Island district ranging from South Kona to Keaau. “Just having ICE and HSI within our community is nerve wracking, and they’ve brought in a number of agents from the continent and from Honolulu to be a part of these operations.”
Tricia McLaughlin, the assistant secretary of public affairs for the Department of Homeland Security, said in a news release that the department is “conducting operations in Hawaii to protect communities from violent criminals who shouldn’t be in our country,” adding that “the targets of the operation in Hawaii include criminal illegal aliens charged with kidnapping, assault, distribution of deadly drugs, domestic abuse, and theft.”
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Kapela said ICE is not around every day but instead come in waves every couple of weeks. “Sometimes, they’ll stand outside of our grocery stores, so I think small things like that have really turned the entire community on edge,” she said. “I started getting really involved when I had the principal of a local school call me, mainly because students weren’t showing up to class.”
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Who trafficked the illegals to Hawaii in the first place?
Well, Democrats run the place. Probably a lot of illegals there.
Tourist tax on Kona. I see no other way.
Yup, voici the necessary ingredients:
1. Liberal newspaper (few aren’t and none are trustworthy)
2. An inconvenienced concern - which most probably is not inconvenienced at all.
3. A stretched logic linking the two, assuming that we will actually believe them.
They never learn, but we most certainly have.
“Who will pick our cotton if Lincoln takes our slaves away?” - Democrats, 1863.
“Who will pick our coffee if Trump takes our illegal aliens away?” - Democrats, 2025.
Nobody effing cares, except to make sure they are deported and stay out.
Please ICE - you’re needed at Point Lookout State Park.
aka Amigo City.
Given how hateful and racist I’ve found Hawaiians to be, you’d think they’re be all for ICE enforcement
But they really just hate white people.
ERMAGAD!!!Not the coffee harvest!!!!
Can’t they just mandate that welfare and food stamp recipients actually WORK FOR THEIR BENEFITS??
“I think there’s a lot of fear within the community,”
Good. Now get out.
L
‘including at Kona’s coffee farms,”
Did they arrest the farm owners who were employing these people illegally
Oh the horror!
Will the Hawaiian islands ever recover?
Hawaiians are all about native Hawaiian this and that...pick your own damn coffee.
It ain’t all that anyway.
My brother went to college in Hawaii and said the same thing only natives welcome.
Robusta is bitter. Cheaper, but bitter. Plenty of Arabica from south America still coming in.
CC
I’ve lived in Hawaii 25 years and you sum it up well.
They just hate whites and think we destroyed their islands.
When in fact it is locals that have made the mess.
It started with deserters from Capt. James Cook’s HMS Endeavour.
BTW-that’s some great coffee they grow.
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