Visitor Deportations From Hawaii Spark Concerns About Entry Rules | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Visitor deportations from Hawaii spark concerns about entry rules | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Nicolle Saroukos, a 25-year-old Australian resident from Southwest Sydney, was recently denied entry into Hawaii, imprisoned overnight at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu, and then deported.

Few details released on more than 100 immigration arrests

Federal agents have arrested more than 100 people in Hawaii so far this year for alleged violations of immigration law, but information on exactly how many over 100, where they were arrested and for what was not made public. Officials with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to Honolulu Star-Advertiser requests for Enforcement and Removal Operations’ statistics for Hawaii for the past fi…