Immigration Crackdown Begins In Hawaiʻi As Advocates, Lawmakers Push Back By Jeremy Hay

Federal immigration authorities appear to have arrested at least 20 undocumented immigrants in Hawaiʻi in the week since Donald Trump took office — a higher number than usual for that short time period.

So far, those arrested in Hawaiʻi have been people who likely would already have been targeted for arrest: undocumented immigrants convicted of felony crimes or those who had been given their final deportation orders.

But this is just the beginning, warn advocates for Hawaii’s immigrant community.

Hawaiʻi lawmakers are working quickly to advance bills to protect immigrants from an administration eager to see them quickly gone. Learn more about these efforts.