Honolulu Police Department Chief Joe Logan, pictured here during a West Oʻahu Town Hall on public safety in September 2024, said his department is not joining in federal enforcement of administrative violations of immigration law. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
The Honolulu, Maui and Kauaʻi police departments told Civil Beat late last year that they did not have partnership agreements with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, best known as ICE — the spearhead of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
That turns out not to be true. All three counties have agreements with Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI — which is in fact a unit of ICE — as does the Big Island…