ICE Takes Aim At Immigrant Kids In Big Island’s Coffee Belt in Hawai’i. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants is going well beyond the hardened criminals he rails against, snaring undocumented immigrant children and the adults in their lives. 美國移民與海關執法局 (ICE) 瞄準夏威夷大島咖啡帶的移民兒童. 特朗普總統對移民的打擊遠遠超出了他所譴責的慣犯範圍,無證移民兒童及其生活中的成年人也受到了牽連 By Jeremy Hay
Seemingly overnight, the Big Island, with the state’s largest and fastest-growing Latino population, has become a proving ground for an aggressive immigration enforcement strategy outlined days after the Trump administration took office.
Kids have skipped school and a popular Easter egg hunt. Adults aren’t showing up to work, only venturing out when necessary. Farmers are worried there won’t be enough workers to harvest all of the island’s famed crop.
“I have no peace,” said Juan, a Honduran immigrant sponsoring his teenage niece, who crossed the southern U.S. border on her own a few years ago.
Jeremy Hay reports from the Big Island, where “people are just terrified,” as one nonprofit worker who supports immigrants put it.
