{"id":241735,"date":"2025-05-14T16:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/hawaiis-prized-kona-coffee-fields-have-become-a-target-for-ice\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T16:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:36:06","slug":"hawaiis-prized-kona-coffee-fields-have-become-a-target-for-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=241735","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii\u2019s Prized Kona Coffee Fields Have Become a Target for ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On the mist-wreathed slopes of Mauna Loa, where the earth is rich with volcanic memory and the Pacific glimmers in the distance, a coveted coffee \u2014 Kona \u2014 is coaxed from the soil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nurtured by the Island of Hawaii\u2019s unique mingling of abundant sunshine, afternoon rain and lava-infused soil, Kona coffee retails for more than $30 for an eight-ounce bag. With a devoted following around the world, the distinct coffee has been a point of pride for the Big Island, and for the thousands of immigrants from Latin America who for decades have handpicked the beans in the Kona fields.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now the fate of many of those immigrant workers is uncertain, as is the future of the island\u2019s coffee industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration\u2019s immigration crackdown has reached this remote, rugged island a 45-minute flight from Honolulu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Federal agents have flown in several times since February, most recently last week, often remaining for days as they search for undocumented immigrants among the 200,000 or so people who live on the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Compared with widely publicized operations in big cities like Denver and Los Angeles, the actions on the island have been relatively small, with just a few dozen people known to have been taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But ICE enforcement actions have sent waves of fear across the rural island, and underscored how the immigration dragnet has expanded, sweeping in men and women with no criminal records, as well as children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cRegardless of the number of people detained, the consequence of this is massive,\u201d said Jeanne Kapela, a Democrat who represents the area in the State Legislature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Kona\u2019s coffee industry is composed of hundreds of family-owned orchards, usually three to five acres in size, and their immigrant workers often come from mixed-status families, with some members who may be naturalized citizens or green card holders and others who are undocumented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe futures of coffee farmers and these workers are tied together, whether we like it or not,\u201d said Ms. Kapela, whose family grows coffee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The industry is vital to her constituents, she said. \u201cIf it dies, I don\u2019t know how we come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The immigrant community has grown increasingly uneasy. In March, a widely shared video showed agents leading a woman and three children away from their home. The next month, a boy in first grade was pulled from class after his father was detained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Tricia McLaughlin, a Homeland Security spokeswoman, said in an email that agents had conducted \u201ca number of targeted enforcement actions\u201d to arrest criminals on the Big Island. In addition, she said, \u201cnon-targeted illegal aliens were encountered and detained.\u201d She did not respond to a question about how many immigrants were taken into custody.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Bruce Cornwell, 72, who grows and processes his coffee and that of other farmers for the U.S. and international markets, said: \u201cThese are good, hard workers. They aren\u2019t gang members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Unlike industrial farms, small-scale coffee growers cannot readily make use of the government\u2019s seasonal agricultural visa program, which is complex, costly and requires extensive paperwork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Cornwell said that workers should be offered pathways to immigrate legally, rather than be rounded up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf we don\u2019t have these immigrant workers, our coffee will be hurting,\u201d he said, standing near his orchard, where coffee cherries were ripening. \u201cThe government should make it easier for these people to come here and work.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hawaii is the only U.S. state with significant commercial coffee production, led by the Big Island, where coffee cultivation began in the 1820s. In 1873, Henry Nicholas Greenwell, an English immigrant who settled on the island and whose descendants still grow coffee, took Kona to the World\u2019s Fair in Vienna and won an award there for excellence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the early 1900s, Japanese workers escaping harsh conditions on Hawaii\u2019s sugar cane plantations began leasing small parcels of land to grow coffee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the mid-1980s, the global embrace of specialty coffee catapulted Kona cultivation. Since then, thousands of Mexican and Central American workers have migrated to the Big Island,<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>and some have become growers themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Among them are Mexican Americans like Armando Rodriguez, whose family crossed the border into the United States illegally when he was 8 years old. He obtained a green card through his father, whose status was legalized in 1986 under the most recent amnesty for undocumented immigrants, and later became a citizen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Today, his extended family grows and mills coffee on 13 acres. They ship their award-winning coffee, Aloha Star, across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Rodriguez is worried about the harvest, he said. Workers who he normally hires for the season have informed him and other growers that they will not return from the mainland United States, even though they are green card holders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u201c<\/strong>They\u2019re afraid that they\u2019ll be detained at the airport, or their green card is going to be taken away,\u201d Mr. Rodriguez said as he drove along the Mamalahoa Highway, a narrow, winding coastal road with turnoffs on either side that lead to dozens of coffee farms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On a recent morning, workers moved along a row of baby coffee plants on the three-acre farm of Don Davis, a retired Navy pilot who flew for Delta Air Lines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The workers are on their feet for 11 hours a day, said Mr. Davis, who pays them $30 an hour. He had just hung a \u201cno trespassing\u201d sign on his gate in the hope of deterring ICE agents from entering his property. He said that he worried for his workers, even though they had legal status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is nobody else who is going to pick this,\u201d Mr. Davis said of his crop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During a lunch break, Salvador Cancino, 47, who has devoted his working life to coffee, said that he and others in his extended Mexican family were long-timers on the island. They have green cards and American citizen children, and own their homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But he said that younger undocumented immigrants had been arriving in recent years to replace aging pickers. Many of the newcomers are Hondurans who grew coffee in their homeland, which for years <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/nyti.ms\/38Vpk2E\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">has been plagued by one of the world\u2019s highest murder rates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Several of those workers unloaded 100-pound bags of coffee at a mill on a recent Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is a lot of work here, and you can make good money,\u201d said Darwin, 26, who arrived in the country four years ago and who spoke on the condition that he be identified only by his first name because of his immigration status.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said he made $400 a day working the harvest, and had his wife join him in Hawaii. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She gave birth to a newborn in March, and days later, when others who live in the same house were away, she noticed an S.U.V. approaching. She said she locked herself and the baby in the bedroom with the curtains drawn. Agents banged on the front door for a while, and then left when no one responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since then, the couple have been rethinking whether to stay. \u201cWe\u2019ve been happy here, but the immigration situation now has us extremely worried,\u201d Darwin said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was in March that Ms. Kapela, the state legislator, received frantic calls from schoolteachers and others about \u201cthe chaos that had ensued\u201d from enforcement actions, she recalled. Children had disappeared from classrooms, she said, and frightened families were in hiding or sleeping in their cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNo one knew what to do,\u201d Ms. Kapela said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There are no immigration lawyers practicing on the island, and immigrants who have court hearings must fly to Honolulu, where immigration proceedings are held. Missing a hearing can result in a deportation order from a judge, making the immigrants targets for enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In early April, ICE agents returned to Kona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">John Redden, who grows certified organic coffee, left to run errands one day and did not close the gate behind him. When he returned, a neighbor informed him that federal agents had been on his property off the Mamalahoa Highway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">No workers were on his land when the agents were at his farm, Mr. Redden said, but even so, he was irate. On April 5, he joined a protest, brandishing a sign that read, \u201cICE invaded my farm.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A community meeting was held on April 29 at the elementary school where the first grader, who was from Honduras, was removed and deported. At the meeting, Mr. Rodriguez, the coffee farmer and founder of Aloha Latinos, a nonprofit, asked whether local police officers were assisting federal agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The island\u2019s police chief, Benjamin Moszkowicz, responded that his department \u201chas not, does not and will not conduct immigration enforcement,\u201d which he said is a federal matter. He received rousing applause.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Gollita Reyes, who makes tamales for mini markets that cater to immigrants, said that orders for her tamales had plummeted with each enforcement action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPeople are missing work because they\u2019re afraid, and running out of money,\u201d Ms. Reyes said. \u201cOthers are gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Sheelagh McNeill<!-- --> contributed research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the mist-wreathed slopes of Mauna Loa, where the earth is rich with volcanic memory and the Pacific glimmers in the distance, a coveted coffee \u2014 Kona \u2014 is coaxed from the soil. 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