{"id":42969,"date":"2025-07-30T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=42969"},"modified":"2025-07-30T13:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:00:35","slug":"immigrants-arrested-in-s-f-are-being-sent-to-prison-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/immigrants-arrested-in-s-f-are-being-sent-to-prison-in-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrants arrested in S.F. are being sent to prison in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At least two arrestees in S.F. immigration court have been flown to the Aloha State \u2014 including a man an immigration judge described as potentially mentally impaired<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A by\u00a0MARGARET KADIFA<\/a><\/strong> July 29, 2025 (MissionLocal.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The entrance to 630 Sansome St. on June 24, 2025, closed after protesters and police clashed outside. Photo by Frankie Solinsky Duryea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At least two people arrested by federal immigration officers on Thursday<\/a> at immigration court in San Francisco have since been flown to Hawaii, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are now being held in the Federal Detention Center Honolulu<\/a>, a federal prison, according to ICE\u2019s online detainee search tracker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are no ICE detention centers in Hawaii, so the federal government has placed immigrants in prisons. ICE in February signed an agreement with the Federal Bureau of Prisons \u2014 part of the Justice Department \u2014 to reserve space for ICE detainees, according to the Honolulu Civil Beat<\/em><\/a>, which reported residents from out of state being transferred to Hawaii as early as June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Immigration lawyers in Hawaii told the Civil Beat <\/em>that they are concerned residents of other states are not getting effective counsel in Hawaii; even if they had a lawyer, it\u2019s difficult to stay in touch thousands of miles away, they told the Civil Beat<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mission Local<\/em> saw both arrests<\/a> last week. ICE swarmed both people immediately after they exited routine court hearings at immigration court, at 630 Sansome St. In both cases, an attorney with the Department of Homeland Security moved to dismiss their cases \u2014 a tactic<\/a> the Trump administration is increasingly using to detain and fast-track asylum-seekers out of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the arrestees was a man whose courtroom demeanor\u2014he was mumbling to himself through the morning\u2014led the immigration court judge to say he appeared to be mentally impaired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s obvious to me that there are competency issues,\u201d the judge, Patrick O\u2019Brien, said at the time. ICE arrested the man moments later, anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are no ICE detention centers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Many people arrested in the Bay Area are placed in detention centers in the Central Valley or Southern California<\/a>, though some people recently arrested in the Bay Area have since been flown to Arizona<\/a> and Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least two arrestees in S.F. immigration court have been flown to the Aloha State \u2014 including a man an immigration judge described as potentially mentally impaired by\u00a0MARGARET KADIFA July 29, 2025 (MissionLocal.org) At least two people arrested by federal immigration officers on Thursday at immigration court in San Francisco have since… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42970,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42969\/revisions\/42970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}