Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Hawaii

[Durian Fiend]

Another one of Hawaii's "worst of the worst" taken off our streets:

Lahaina fire survivor is arrested by ICE - Hawaii Tribune-Herald

A snip or two:

“On the morning of August 8, 2025 — the two-year anniversary of the Lahaina wildfire tragedy — ICE agents arrested and detained a Lahaina wildfire survivor, Sergio Haro, in front of his children,”

Haro, who came to the U.S. as a minor 20 years ago, is being detained by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after he was arrested Aug. 8 for an alleged administrative violation of immigration law.

Haro has been a “valuable member of the Hawaii community for over 20 years.”

“He has no criminal rec­ord. He is a devoted husband, loving father of three daughters, and proud grandfather to his infant grandson, all of whom live in Hawaii and have legal status,” Teng wrote.

Yeah. So much winning.

Pathetic.  What an incredible waste of time and money, not to mention the damage done to community cohesion.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Hawaii's "worst of the worst" taken off our streets:

For an agency that works under an administration adverse to numbers and counting, it boggles the mind that they fly thousands of miles to show those of us who can add and subtract what results when you combine quotas with struggling to climb the bell curve on the upward side.

[HiloJulie]

"For an agency that works under an administration adverse to numbers and counting, it boggles the mind that they fly thousands of miles to show those of us who can add and subtract what results when you combine quotas with struggling to climb the bell curve on the upward side."

Good point HOTPE.

And yet, they managed to pinpoint this man's arrest almost to the minute of the day exactly two years later where he lost his business and a combined total of 25 family members who also lost 5 of their homes in one of Hawaii's most tragic events by sheer coincidence, as I am sure it had nothing to do with the arrest being designed and timed to be as mean spirited, unempathetic and void of human decency that further would appear to be designed as to inflict as much psychological damage as possible - on the family as well everyone else. I guess they ran out of misbehaving puppies.

['elepaio]

Just like Gravity. .no one is above the law .. diba? oh an .. believe all women.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

no one is above the law

You have to ignore a whole lot of law breaking to say that without irony.

[Durian Fiend]

no one is above the law

You have to ignore a whole lot of law breaking to say that without irony.

  Salamat!  

[TomK]

Diba.

[Obie]

diba .

[ironyak]

Civil Beat has another great article looking at the impact of ICE raids on coffee farms in Hawaii (~150 people arrested, those with even green cards unwilling to travel given the uncertain and arbitrary enforcement, estimated crop losses of 20% to 30% despite a bumper crop this year meaning hundreds of thousands of dollars lost for some farms).

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/09/immigr...e-harvest/
"Smith called Trump’s campaign to deport millions of immigrants “an irrational policy,” extending well beyond the hardened criminals the administration claims to be targeting. He said it is hurting the nation’s agricultural sector by raising labor costs and decreasing production.

“Anyone who claims that this is not going to harm U.S. farmers, whether they’re running cattle in Arizona or in Hawaiʻi harvesting coffee, is astonishingly ill informed,” he said.

In June, Trump briefly called for a pause in immigration enforcement in certain industries, including on farms. But under pressure from his right-most flank, he quickly reversed course.

ICE did not respond to emailed questions about the impact of its immigration enforcement approach on agriculture, or about how many people it has arrested on the Big Island since Trump took office. At the start of May, ICE stopped providing details about where administrative arrests were made in Hawaiʻi, aside from those in correctional facilities."

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

estimating they will suffer crop losses of 20% to 30% this year.

Crop losses only because the coffee won’t be picked due to lack of workers. Workers from previous years were laborers, not criminals, and Americans citizens have not rushed in to take those jobs. Which we were told were taken from American workers.

So to sum up, in the case of Kona and Kau coffee pickers there were no “worst of the worst” and the jobs immigrants filled can’t or won’t be done by Americans.

It’s a policy of lose, lose.