Illegals In Hawaii Detention Could Wait 19 Months For Hearing Or Something

By William Teach May 11, 2026 – 10:30 am

There is a simple solution for this
Detained Immigrants Could Wait 19 Months For Their Day In Honolulu Court
Honolulu’s federal immigration court has become increasingly overwhelmed since 2020, with new data showing that the number of cases pending and the wait time for those cases to reach the courts both have hit their highest levels in 15 years.
Those problems, which predate the second Trump administration, have been further tested by a quadrupling of immigration arrests in Hawai?i in 2025 compared to 2024.
The pace of arrests was averaging 35 a month last year, then appeared to be tapering off in February, according to the latest data obtained by the Deportation Data Project.
Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security is moving to limit the time allocated in courts for individual hearings in asylum cases, while ramping up requests for removals before hearings can be conducted.
How many illegals were there in the very expensive state of Hawaii?
New immigration cases in Hawai?i began overwhelming completed cases during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 and, according to Maui attorney Kevin Block, “there was also a surge of unaccompanied minors and other types of cases in 2023 and 2024. So it was after Covid, but before the second Trump administration.”
The backlog in Honolulu immigration cases doubled from 568 in the 2023 fiscal year to 1,162 in the 2024 fiscal year, he said — cases that are still making their way through the courts.
The backlog of pending immigration cases is now at its highest rate in 15 years, with 1,413 cases reported as of March 2026, according to new data obtained from the Department of Homeland Security, which was released on May 6 by an immigration tracking project based at Syracuse University.
That’s not a lot of illegals for one state, but, the courts are smaller because Hawaii is out in the middle of nowhere. Rather a strange place to just show up illegally and demand (fake) asylum, eh? It’s not cheap getting to Hawaii, but, we’ve been told that all illegals are poor.
The state has a limited number of immigration attorneys and if someone is detained in FDC Honolulu, their lawyer may have to travel to O?ahu to confer with them, he said, assuming they have the money to retain one in the first place.
Well, yeah, it’s not the kind of state that would need a lot like NY or California. Oh, well. It shouldn’t take long. Listen to the illegal make up a story of woe, realize that it is BS, and ship them off.
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Juan’s fingers interlock as he sits on his living room couch. He squeezes them tighter as he talks about his American journey.
He came to the U.S. from Guatemala more than 30 years ago in search of a better life and became a citizen a decade ago.
But here in Sioux City, Iowa, the immigrants he knows are afraid.
“Many people live with that fear constantly, especially those with families,” Juan said in Spanish.
And they should be. They are here illegally. How many have stolen the social security numbers of Americans, causing problems with their credit? And the fear is the point. They, like those in Hawaii, should simply self deport.


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