ICE raids in Hawaii rattle communities, threaten Kona coffee harvest

San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | May 31, 2025 | By Christine Hitt, Hawaii Contributing Editor

[BenLurkin]

Who trafficked the illegals to Hawaii in the first place?

[Parley Baer]

Well, Democrats run the place. Probably a lot of illegals there.

[Libloather]

Tourist tax on Kona. I see no other way.

[Da Coyote]

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.

[Bubba_Leroy]

“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.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Threaten Kona coffee harvest? I guess the fags from SF, Boston, and LA are going to have to drink Robusta and like it. Or better yet toasted chicory.

[HYPOCRACY]

Nobody effing cares, except to make sure they are deported and stay out.

[Palio di Siena]

Please ICE - you’re needed at Point Lookout State Park.
aka Amigo City.

[TheThirdRuffian]

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.

[lastchance]

ERMAGAD!!!Not the coffee harvest!!!!

[eyeamok]

Can’t they just mandate that welfare and food stamp recipients actually WORK FOR THEIR BENEFITS??

[Lurker]

“I think there’s a lot of fear within the community,”

Good. Now get out.

L

[JSM_Liberty]

‘including at Kona’s coffee farms,”

Did they arrest the farm owners who were employing these people illegally

[A_Former_Democrat]

Oh the horror!

Will the Hawaiian islands ever recover?

[Adder]

Hawaiians are all about native Hawaiian this and that...pick your own damn coffee.

It ain’t all that anyway.

[cnsmom]

My brother went to college in Hawaii and said the same thing only natives welcome.

[Celtic Conservative]

Robusta is bitter. Cheaper, but bitter. Plenty of Arabica from south America still coming in.

CC

[rellic]

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.

[Larry381]

It started with deserters from Capt. James Cook’s HMS Endeavour.
BTW-that’s some great coffee they grow.