Hawaiʻi is one of 22 states that have called the USDA’s demand for food stamp recipients’ information unprecedented and unlawful.

Advocates seek to limit cooperation with ICE and to rein in the agency’s actions amid a major increase in immigration arrests locally.

None of the 44 workers detained that day ended up seeking asylum. Their employer, a local janitorial contractor, has faced federal scrutiny before.

The federal immigration enforcement agency was in West Maui reportedly searching for a non-resident.

The Mexican citizen had pleaded guilty and was convicted of illegally reentering the United States.

As the second Trump administration engages in its campaign of mass deportations, military experts and veterans say immigrant troops and their relatives are once again targets.

As their workers are arrested and deported, flee the country or stay away, coffee farmers are struggling to bring in a bumper crop.

Experts say it’s the first time they know of that money transfer records have been used to trace someone purely for reentering the U.S. illegally, in this case 17 years ago.

Call to issue an executive order echoes legislation that failed this year but raises questions about autonomy of local law enforcement.

Immigration lawyers contend that people who are sent far from where they were detained are being denied effective legal representation.