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Hawaii County committee backs resolution urging state protections against federal immigration enforcement
Summary
After extensive public testimony urging stronger local safeguards, the county committee approved Resolution 399-25 calling on the State of Hawaiʻi to adopt measures limiting certain federal immigration enforcement practices and to protect sensitive community spaces.
The Committee on Government Operations and External Affairs on Dec. 2 forwarded Resolution 399-25 to full council with a favorable recommendation after extensive public testimony and discussion. The resolution urges the State of Hawaiʻi to adopt protections aimed at reducing community harms from federal immigration enforcement and lists eight recommended actions for state consideration.
Public testimony opened the committee meeting and featured several speakers urging broad protections. Sam Guckenheimer of Kona Indivisible said he supported the measure and pointed the committee to a toolkit titled “No Secret Police, No Troops in Our Streets,” which contains model provisions including task-force bans and limits on National Guard deployments. “We wholeheartedly support resolution 399-25,” Guckenheimer said.
Other testifiers asked the council to push for the…
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