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  • ICE raids in Hawaii rattle communities, threaten Kona coffee harvest

    06/01/2025 4:39:17 PM PDT · by thecodont · 36 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | May 31, 2025 | By Christine Hitt, Hawaii Contributing Editor
    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...
  • One Cup of Coffee, G.I. Joe

    08/02/2011 2:51:25 PM PDT · by LeoWindhorse · 14 replies
    Hawaii Reporter ^ | August 2nd, 2011 | KRISTEN WONG
    KRISTEN WONG FOR HAWAII MARINE - Kailua-Kona resident Robert Gowan was a coffee farmer looking for a way to support the troops. Gowan asked his father, a World War II Air Force veteran, if he had any good memories “amidst all the tough conditions” during the war. His father replied that he and his fellow service members would find cheer as they lay in a fighting hole in the early morning hours when they could smell fresh coffee brewing from the cooks’ tent. Since 2008, Gowan, the Hawaii state coordinator of the Hawaii Chapter of the Gathering of Eagles, has...