Hawaii plans to relocate homeless back to the mainland with their families

[@indigobluu]

This happens in Claifornia also, most of the homeless aren't from there, just taking advantage of the weather.

[@reubensandwich9249]

And all this time I thought it was Cartman.

[@OhBrutalOne]

Plus all the free cash grabs the wonderful CA governor gives them.. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@jessetran7463]

A lot of homeless in CA came here thinking they’ll make it big, some do, and the communist laws help them live free of charge at times.

[@TruthHurts2u]

@@OhBrutalOne Name one.

[@scotttild]

Part of the problem other part is the leftist policies of just tossing free everything and money at the problem and not addressing the real issues 90% of homeless is because of mental health issues, not affordable housing. If you can't afford to live someplace you can always move to another cheaper location. CA homeless issues are entirely because of policy.

[@MrRo004]

Question is, how did these homeless afford a ticket from Boston?

[@katrinagarrett9612]

Panhandling.

[@william2william]

Boston charities and social services paid them to go to Hawaii and California.

[@elbertmoreno2159]

Or did they just save for a one way ticket? 🤔

[@damegto]

@@william2william we have THOUSANDS of them here in Southern California in almost every city. This is a DRUG and alcoholic epidemic!!! With a sprinkle of mental health problems

[@TUKByV1]

If they're truly homeless and on SS/Disability, their meager income can exceed their bills enough to save for a ticket.

[@faithsrvtrip8768]

My father and his GF got tickets from California to Hawaii from a charity. They stayed and begged in Honolulu for six months before getting another set of free tickets to go back to California. Insane.

[@jameshall915]

I Hope you don't have those scummy genetics from Dad.

[@Kevin-jx7ig]

I've been homeless in several states. Maui is the most brutal environment i have experienced. If you are homeless and think it's Paradise, you are wrong. Do not go to Hawaii. You will regret it...Brown centipedes, scorpians, Cane spiders. Kiave thorns.

[@mrbonanza2606]

@Ryan S They are giving you a first hand experience so maybe they are not wrong?

[@Kevin-jx7ig]

@@attackfalcon Maui is #3 for beaches closed due to fecal contamination. So glad I left thatToxic Rock.

[@bullyboy131]

Maui No Ka Oi!

[@Kevin-jx7ig]

@@bullyboy131 Southside Kihei boy long time.

[@j.paulandrews261]

@Ryan S I want to do a eMTB tour where do I sign up?

[@SPMNDK89]

I love how these bums managed to book a flight to Hawaii, hoping their needs with be magically met at a destination that's known as a vacation spot and when they aren't met with sympathy, they play the victim card...

[@zeldasmith6154]

He seems to be under the impression people have compassion. Their families don't want them.

[@rhuttrho88]

Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice,..... you know the rest!🤷🏿‍♂️👍🏿👋🏿😁

[@roddanlives2650]

People like you are going to be reality checked!

[@jnolette1030]

After they burn bridges by stealing from you, bringing the drug friends over, and lying over again. Yeah we don't want them

[@Mansikkacake]

well, just dont fly them to California !

[@Jianju69]

People have a lot of compassion, but eventually it runs out when you're dealing with crazy, thieving drug addicts...

[@ronliebermann]

It’s amazing that strangers can arrive in Hawaii, and simply demand welfare.

[@shooter853]

JUST like ILLEGALS coming across in Texas.

[@barbie6695]

They can land anywhere in the U.S and do that. Hawaii is no better than the other 49 states when it comes to homelessness. It ain’t like no Hawaiians ever, in the history of the U.S, never ended up in another state homeless and on welfare. It happens. You’re naive if you think otherwise.

[@pootersnacks]

@Nobody Spiritually gang raped, please sir do enlighten me.

[@Awholekit]

​@@pootersnacks mfkrs crazy is the simple answer 😂

[@Old_Mansplaining]

Hawaii needs to be taking in “refugees “ like every other state . Hawaii needs to be turned into a big refugee camp .

[@enigamilennon8088]

They are turning a blind eye. Help them where they are. They say their returning them to their families and support. If they had that, they wouldn’t be homeless in Hawaii in the first place. Don’t pretend they’re lives will get rosy cause you buy them a ticket. Passing the buck, with a human being. We should all do our part. Sad.

[@jasontomica8938]

Exactly 💯

[@Trueye-sl2mr]

The Federal government should build affordable housing in Hawaii

[@Moochrocker]

Fema camps in disguise???

[@michaelwolf8690]

Why would anyone think that people who live on the street have a support network to help them get their lives back??

[@waitandhope]

You said it lol

[@jamesforgington3315]

Wheelchair guy basically said “it’s your problem, not mine.”

[@rnettles6241]

He's right. He voted straight Democrat in Boston. And now he's voting straight Democrat in Honolulu. BONUS: The tropical weather agrees with him.

[@maxangeles6279]

He's saying, I am your problem now!! hahahhaa! what losers!!

[@brawnbenson552]

@@rnettles6241 -People have free movement in our country. Red or blue. This isn’t Russia. Since he’s a welfare queen, he’s probably red.

[@bullyboy131]

Yup. Hawaii is so brainwashed they keep voting Democrats.

[@rascallyrabbit]

probably got in a wheel chair after a bar fight he started

[@archstanton6441]

Amazing. I've worked for 45 years and I can't afford to live in Hawaii, but I'm supposed to pay taxes to support somebody else living there?

[@Heart2HeartBooks]

Take your social security get on a plane and walla you are now living in hawaii!

[@RAdaltonracer]

You act like that’s not partially what taxes are for. Helping others, not just yourself.

[@mghegotagun]

@@RAdaltonracer and yet there's several instances of tax dollars doing nothing for anyone, and is basically theft, such as paying cops who can't do anything about rampant crime in/around your business, only to tell you to hire private security out of pocket. Or the socialized taxpayer funded Healthcare system in england/canada plagued with so many delays and issues despite being paid for through much higher taxes that people still opt to pay out of pocket for private health care instead.

[@glennsprague8535]

Yeah, like all the liberal states!

[@alexcarter8807]

@@Heart2HeartBooks Except when a mainlander says "living in Hawaii" what they mean is, "live like an upper-middle-class person in Hawaii" they don't want to live modestly, the mainland attitude is the very opposite of humble. So this is why you hear mainlanders complain so much about Hawaii being expensive. They all want to live in Kahala and send their kids to Punahou.

[@Pascal9004]

Relocating homeless people back with their families is easier said than done. Have you asked their families if they wanted these people back in their lives? There's a reason they're not with their families anymore.

[@SomeRando8221]

Oh wow.

[@leilanigreenwood5064]

That's true

[@spaceballs44]

I’m sure they will have open arms to have them back in their home. Reality is they will be homeless in the state they are taken to and become that states problem is how they are viewed. The politicians and the wealthy in Hawaii don’t want to look at them that’s the reality.

[@jonasbaine3538]

Many are hiding from the law or things they have done to others

[@Lola_Nico]

@@SomeRando8221 oh wow what? It’s honest.

[@Myau79]

The mainland has been sending their homeless to Hawaii and other year round warmer climates since forever. I remember hearing about it back in ‘98 when I started going Kapiolani. Glad that Hawaii is fighting back. These other states need to handle their own homeless population instead of pawning them off to other places.

[@wolfumz]

I don't think anyone, much less a state government or state agency, has sent homeless to Hawaii out of the blue. In fact, since 2015, Hawaii has had a program to fly homeless _out_ of the state, and they've pitched towards over 600 flights. There was an article making the rounds online accusing New York state of flying homeless to Hawaii, no questions asked. Despite the headline, in reality, it turned out that, in five years, New York state had flown one person to Hawaii. That person was a Hawaiian native who was going to move back home with family. There is no program to shovel homeless onto Hawaii's social services and take advantage of Hawaii. It does not exist. Hawaii has no problem producing its own homeless via drugs and exploding cost of living. There's no evidence of a large number of out-of-state homeless in Hawaii, since 90% of Hawaii's homeless are not from out of state. Plus, "Out of state" isn't just mainland US, it's Australia, Polynesia, etc... By comparison, in California, out-of-state homeless make up ~40% of the homeless population in LA, and ~70% of them were already homeless or at-risk of homelessness when they arrived in the CA.

[@gopplergoppler8827]

Maybe they could use the money for food or rent instead of air travel to be homeless somewhere else. No one ever gives them money only programs and paperwork help systems because they "only buy drugs or alcohol" if they are allowed to have and use money.....yet many go decades without starving to death....

[@Nuttyirishman85]

They’re better off there than on the mainland. If you’re going to be homeless, it might as well be a vacation destination.

[@UtilityPro]

@@Nuttyirishman85 it’s still a place where the homeless are not truly helped. Your just shipping your problems elsewhere & not solving homelessness.

[@Nuttyirishman85]

@@UtilityPro Happy people on vacation are more likely to throw you a buck. Then me all pissed off at a stop light after a long day at work

[@shawnmurray9964]

I have a long lost cousin who moved to Hawaii to make it easier for him to live on the beach. At least that’s the story we got. No one knows where he is or how he’s doing. Last I heard he had been hit by a car & was now in a wheelchair. It makes me sad, he doesn’t want any help from even the extended family, we’ve tried. 😢

[@jamesmacatangay8360]

any chance its the guy on the video?

[@shawnmurray9964]

@@jamesmacatangay8360 clever

[@mostlypeacefulcitizen8006]

Does he have mental issues or is it drugs or what do you think wants him. to remain homeless? Serious question thank you.

[@tucsoncollectibles8843]

someone in the family obviously abused and/ or molested him.

[@shawnmurray9964]

@@tucsoncollectibles8843 I wouldn’t know, he’s a “step cousin” but thanks for chiming in doc.

[@808ecobeast7]

Other States have been doing this for decades ... when I worked at the airport in the late 80s, a majority of the homeless, especially those from cold winter States said that Social Services would search them out in the Fall and suggest a free trip to a year round warmer climate instead of freezing to death where there were then. The State would clean them up, provide clothing, and tranfer their benefit along with them ... they also said the "Hawaiian Culture" takes care of their community ... Aloha!

[@artsIlike]

It's true.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

fascinating. I remember this homeless guy going to Hawaii - that was 20 years ago! Didn't know that was a homeless migration seasonal trip!

[@808ecobeast7]

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Hopefully doing well ...

[@thebangkokconnection4080]

Chicago and Texas dumped homeless and people who caused trouble on Wisconsin for years, well documented.

[@michaelashby9654]

Name a state that has done this for decade. Curious which ones.

[@herbertthewaterrat]

Many of them come from Laguna Beach California. Laguna has been trying to get rid of its homeless to avoid a low income affordable housing state mandate.

[@ludwigvoncocksucker3275]

wow, sounds progressive!

[@guslevy3506]

LOL…the Laguna Beach “homeless” problem is counted in the dozens. If you have ever been to Laguna, it’s stunningly beautiful and extremely wealthy with a median home at ~$2.5mm. If Laguna is sending their homeless anywhere - who are not from Laguna - then they’re prob spending $50 on a Uber and directing them back to LA. (Of course, most of LA’s homeless were sent there from other places across the US). The “affordable housing” CA mandate is a tyrannical edict that applies to every city in the State no matter what the homeless population is.

[@anthonycharles-d5i]

As it should. Don't need the homeless, enabled by democrats, ruining another California jewel.

[@WN_Byers]

Gus, just like the Malibu scene in Big Lebowski 🤣

[@guslevy3506]

@@WN_Byers The Eagles fuking suck Man…

[@steved.]

Hawaii is a settlement. No one is from Hawaii. Any human that goes to the islands deserves to live life as they please. Scary right? It's the same for the mainland. 20,000 people a month are crossing boarders with no jobs, and often no identity. Honestly at the boarder of Texas, Arizona, and California 5% of the people who enter should have to option of traveling to Hawaii. Before you freak out this statement is based on reality, and not emotion. That's why you may be triggered. My deepest apologies! Peace, love, and pomaikai

[@987654321wormy]

I used to work for Social Services years ago. Homeless people would travel up to northern states when it was warm as they paid way more in benefits. Once it started to cool off they would make the trek south where it was warmer. We called them "Welfare Snow Birds".

[@arribaficationwineho32]

That happens in Colorado to California for weather. They camp out in Colorado in the summer then somehow get to California for winter

[@erikh9991]

My sister's friend's cousin does this. Sonoma County pays the most but is cold in the winter. He goes to LA from November to April.

[@andrewvo8395]

I like how Hawaii is making it seem like they’re reuniting them back with their families. Are we that stupid? They don’t want it to be their problem any longer that’s why.

[@carpballet]

“…landed here about a month ago with nowhere to go.” The problem is contained within that one quote.

[@EternalResonance]

Get the homeless mexican sponsors to help them grt jobs. Migrant mexicans always have a job. You hardly see a homeless mexican

[@WildBikerBill]

He finds a way to land there but somehow it is someone else's responcibility to provide him with a way back.

[@michaelbabella9012]

are they also planning on revoking their 'sanctuary city/sanctuary state' status as well?

[@mktay2067]

Sounds like they are helping them get home. Where they want to and have support

[@secondchance6603]

Some of the so called 'Sanctuary cities/states' turned them away remember?

[@RAdaltonracer]

@@mktay2067 exactly. It’s not like the rest of the US where you can just hop on a bus, train, or drive between states to get home if you’re in need of help. Flying is the only way.

[@jasestrickland1704]

@@RAdaltonracerthen maybe they should have thought about it more before arriving with a one way ticket. That’s just plain selfish entitlement.

[@daveouterspace]

Can swim

[@SidewaysBurnouts]

maybe they should address the unsustainable rents and home prices that has regular hawaiian families moving to cess pools like las vegas.

[@TheJhtlag]

there's only so much land in Hawai'i.

[@SidewaysBurnouts]

@@TheJhtlag well send the zuckerbergs home and divide their land among the islander street gangs.

[@flower2289]

Grow up. The market sets those prices.

[@chiara6179]

You grow up if you believe in some all knowing all powerful “market”

[@chiara6179]

The same corporations who took hand outs from the government funded by tax payer money are now buying up the single family homes and raising prices to be unaffordable

[@kati-ana]

What will you do for all the local Hawaii folks who are now homeless on the mainland? Will you buy them a ticket back home and help them get back on their feet? These mainlanders make this their 'vacation" by just flying back and forth and they always come back. But Hawaii folks long to come home but can't afford to. Invest in our people who rightfully belong in Hawaii.

[@Chorizo727]

@RE Lock 💯

[@billysgarden-u9s]

@RE Lock yep lol

[@williamryan9195]

Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Ellison will make sure they never will have a place to call home anymore.

[@kbrown5218]

Texas has been getting invaded for years by illegal aliens.... Be glad you're an island.

[@spoonypoon7998]

You sound prejudice

[@evangewho56]

@AkitaMix, I may be wrong but do not think that the 100K is given to EACH homeless person, but the general fund to work this program.

[@terryroth2855]

Lotsa room now in Chicago, Portland, and Seattle. All the Walmart stores alone can house many folks.

[@MooseBme]

"We don't care where you go, but YOU CAN'T STAY HERE!"

[@V.Oakley]

That about sums it up, doesn't it!

[@galewinds7696]

You don't have to go home...but you can't stay here.. a bartenders favorite line at 2:30 am....

[@YA-qj8fx]

It's closing time!

[@illegallystalked3119]

Im a trucker, see tons of homeless and homeless camps around the country. I would say for many it is obviously addictions. That stuff costs money, and so they put the drugs or the alcohol as priority one, not rent, not keeping a job. Then there are those that simply didnt have enough money saved for hard times and fell on hard times. Im sure there are other categories, but these seem to be the main ones. So stay off drugs mmmk, and bank your money.

[@felixthecat2786]

Let's send homeless people to other states so we don't have to deal with them. No one's ever done that before

[@indigenousspinster_6665]

None of them are native to Hawaii 🤡 Hawaii has a housing and job shortage for native Hawaiians

[@fbksfrank4]

Happens every year at the Super Bowl.

[@coolcatmeow77]

It's called Greyhound therapy

[@californiadreamer2580]

@Felix The Cat Actually, Nevada did that to California some time back.

[@jacobmcandles1745]

Back in the 70s and 80s California sent their homeless to Hawaii. I’ve talked to them. Lived there for over 20 years , not homeless.

[@nunyanunya4147]

'with thier families' translate this to 'drop em off and let them be someone elses problem' how human.

[@gloriaculberson3568]

Who's to say when they go back to the mainland their family will accept them, which mean they will be homeless in other states, essentially Hawaii is passing the the buck.

[@nativestacker4185]

I worked in Hawaii years ago and if a person is going to be homeless , that's the place to be homeless. Great weather , food grows wild , lots of part time work .

[@bobbarker9556]

And free range wild chickens roam around

[@nativestacker4185]

@@bobbarker9556 Yup and all the fish you can catch .

[@AlexJonez420]

@@nativestacker4185 No forget da mongoose and pigeons too

[@PInk77W1]

I love Hawaii. Been there maybe 6 times

[@poodlescone9700]

Do not forget the tasty invasive prawns in the rivers.

[@AtTheHeartOfItALL]

give them a purpose and put them to work

[@AWareWolf9]

They don’t want to work they want to panhandle

[@Mr.REEP0]

How did the two Boston dudes get to Hawaii without any cash...What were they doing there that they couldn't do back in Boston... 🤔🤔🤔.. That's like a 12 hr flight right... Wtf..

[@jdane2277]

They were avoiding freezing. All the cozy steam vents are claimed by tougher dudes than them. The T stations are full up, they get rousted out of South Station's rest rooms. Nothing for it but a Hawaiian vacation, maybe the dole is better in another Blue state/

[@carlgharis7948]

Flights are less then $400 on certain days

[@Londoncab]

Hawaii should help these poor men, you are all the same countrymen .

[@iAxianguy]

The homeless situation in the mainland is not any better 😔

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

It's in the blue cities.

[@kcw0809]

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 It's not a matter of "better". It's Do they have Family ANYwhere that's willing to help them if they just knew where they were.

[@kcw0809]

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 A lot of The Homeless came from Red States, it's too Cold or too Hot. They come to the Blue Cities for Compassion and better weather, but it's wearing thin now.

[@the1trueblackgod812]

This countries gives billions to foreign governments but can't take care of its own people.

[@jasminetorre2384]

My daughter is 20 years old she left to homeless shelter because I told her she had to do some thing help in house cleaning or go to school or get a job not sleep all day long and then get up a 10 a night to eat and talk loud early the next morning & then go back to sleep until 10 pm again & again

[@catchumifyoucan]

Ma'am! What does your comment have to do with this article? Is she homeless in hawaii? If so, where in hawaii?

[@Notme-tq4xs]

@@catchumifyoucan Her kid became homeless. Her story. I want to hear it.

[@tunkytunky]

​@@catchumifyoucan i think her point is that a lot of homeless people are that way because they choose to be.

[@HRHolm-bi6zu]

@@catchumifyoucan Probably not, but it illustrates a point. Typical millenial/post-millenial generation slacker-attitude, it feeds into the overall situation the country is experiencing now. Although some of them do work, but they demand their yoga meditation rooms, gourmet cafe bars, and massage breaks from their employers. Losers all the way around.

[@ronniestanley75]

The problem is that for every legit homeless person that is there on the streets and is trying to find a way out, there are a thousand that are there voluntarily. They either have severe mental problems, ane drug addicts, or a combination of both. The vast majority of these people choose to be where they are and won't stay clean. Anything you do for them or give them is enabling their addictions. Life is not going to lay down for anyone or anything.

[@eyehatemyjob]

Bingo! Very hard to fix a broken person.

[@jim6827]

Wish they would do that with people coming over the boarder

[@MF-ty2zn1]

They do. Latest news that a dude was deported from the USA 4 times. The criminal keeps sneaking back in. Now he gets to stay - in prison for murder.

[@giuseppe4909]

It’s “ BORDER “ ffs

[@rhuephus]

What borders does Hawaii have ??

[@jessicatevnan3137]

@@rhuephus none. That's why the homeless are there

[@IggyWulf]

@@rhuephus the ocean

[@kevindunn5650]

I hope they don't send any to Martha's Vineyard. They'll be kicked out by the loving, tolerant citizens before they can get off the bus.

[@poetcomic1]

And LOTS of native Hawaiians, not only those born thee but the actual indigenous Hawaiian people are being forced by insane prices to leave their island homes.

[@AhJodie]

Back in 1972, there was a program like this in California, and they bought me and my friend a bus ticket to go back to Wisconsin, it was lovely, I was 18, and very happy to be back home.

[@SgtJoeSmith]

now wisconsin sends you homeless to california

[@TheJhtlag]

I could kind see this as a bunch of kids heading to Cali to say join the hippie culture and finding out it wasn't as true as advertised. So, maybe Cali could do that knowning it was a reality check for the kids and they wouldn't be back again. Sounds like that was you?

[@AhJodie]

@@TheJhtlag Well yes in a way. I went back several times though, a little more prepared to be able to live there. The friend I got the bus ride though never went back. A friend I went out there with stayed and helped me more when I went out there the second time. So yes and no. I am sure it saved many people's lives too. I was surprised at how many offers I got to make money.... not in a good way.... and I am sure some people did it. By the third time I went out, I ended up living there for a few years, going to college, having a small house where my kids could run around outside a lot, it was much better than the first time!

[@cynthiajohnson6747]

I got a bus ticket back home from cali in the early 80’s. I was so happy not to have to hitchhike

[@AhJodie]

@@cynthiajohnson6747 I am glad you are still here. Hitchhiking was fun most of the time, a lot of good people, but now that I am older, I realize what a foolish thing that was to do.

[@sv4996]

Uh, how do you "accidentally" end up in Hawaii? Took a wrong turn on the freeway?

[@nhmooytis7058]

Turned left at Albuquerque 😂

[@Notme-tq4xs]

@@nhmooytis7058 I did it

[@dancemaniac3868]

Wish we could do the same in California. Most of our homeless come from our of state. Guess the warm weather and liberal policies are just too attractive.

[@rhuephus]

ha ha .. the exact thought the native peoples had when the "white" man slaughtered them and stole THEIR ancestral lands

[@AntilleanConfederation]

Liberal policies attracts what? Homeless. Lmaooo. I don’t see hard working families moving to comiefornia lmaooo

[@BongRipBing]

@@AntilleanConfederation It's Commiefornia, ya putz. If you're gonna put the state down, at least spell it correctly.

[@AntilleanConfederation]

@@BongRipBing in Spanish it has one N and the us has no official language. Comunista mal pario singao.

[@JohnSmith-un9jm]

Mostly losers and illegal aliens moving to California; the plundered middle class people are leaving California en masse

[@servaaslabs]

what I expected when I came to Honolulu was grass skirts and pristine beaches. what I experienced was gridlocked traffic jams and vast homeless encampments.

[@thaimassage23]

Hope you left Honolulu already?

[@annesand7157]

Honolulu area has the beautiful Condo Jungle.

[@jujub4553]

Why don’t they ship all the homeless to those areas with tons of empty land and they can make their communes and farms etc

[@Trump_Vance2024]

They don't care about the people. They just want them out of sight when the tourists arrive

[@helloitsme7983]

Okay, why don't you just take them into your home

[@jamesmacatangay8360]

duh

[@Qtrademark]

These lolo politicians crack me up! "We going send them back Mainland so they can be can with their familes"😂😂😂

[@novajtv]

Yayyyy hopefully they find my tweeker brother so he can come home to his family and rob my parents again oh joy ppphhhfffrrrttt

[@Channel-io1di]

Lol and get back on their feet. Hey, lady! Wake up! It's time to get back on your feet 😊

[@darrellpasion8925]

So they can be with their families ? WhaT 😅

[@paigeturner7788]

So they can go be homeless in some other place is more like it.. 😒

[@paxundpeace9970]

Being stuck on an island doesn't help.

[@culcune]

I may save money and purchase a one-way ticket to Hawaii just to get a free ride back!

[@PInk77W1]

I look very homeless. Beard Bike Backpack

[@belleve5709]

Was thinking same thing, dirty clothes, old day pack sandals and little card board and marking pen lol

[@escapetherace1943]

@@belleve5709 LMAO buying my ticket now. Gonna enjoy paradise, tent wherever, wash off in the river, 🤣

[@thaimassage23]

Hope you save enough money because gas in $4.59 gal.,bread is $5.39 and milk $7.25. Save your money to fly back in a week.

[@jasonpatino]

That's it! Ship them out and drop them on the doorsteps of other states. Great job, Hawaii....

[@2-old-Forthischet]

Hawaii tried something similar decades ago. Hawaii told homeless that if they couldn't support themselves within X amount of time, they would be sent back where they came from. It was ruled unconstitutional. On another note, there are probably many living in Hawaii who are illegal immigrants and in my long life time, I've only heard of one that was deported back to Mexico after living in Hawaii for over ten years!

[@anthonycicc]

Wait... Hawaii is sending US citizens "back to where they came from"... how about what's happening at our Southern border

[@travisgrant5608]

The U S is turning people away at the boarder right and left! Get educated!!!!

[@jakeolthof]

Hope services pays people over $300,000 salary to keep homeless people homeless. This grift brought to you by Catholic charities.

[@billysgarden-u9s]

CC the most evil company out there

[@MrDude826]

How's Q?

[@PippyLongstalking]

they are licking their chops at the border, the bottomfeeders.

[@alexcarter8807]

Ahh yes, the homeless-industrial complex. It makes money out of making and keeping people homeless.

[@nhmooytis7058]

Exactly. My parents contributed to Catholic Charities for years. I called CC when I had breast cancer and was broke and they blew me off. The Salvos helped me keep my utilities on.

[@anthonycharles-d5i]

I always imagined that if I was homeless, I would panhandle enough money to fly to Hawaii, or stow away aboard a ship headed there. Then I could build a small Gilligan's-Island-esque shanty out of coconuts and bamboo and survive off fish, macadamia nuts and guavas.

[@junomoon6530]

And, gang bang island women?

[@AntilleanConfederation]

Lmaooooo

[@phoso1]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 These fools are lazy and looking for a hand out. Farming and fishing, wtf is that?

[@brentnevius2849]

Sounds great, for a weekend!

[@bcrepn]

I think that's how those guys got there. 😛🙂

[@jaykay5142]

Makes sense in my eyes. Hawaii is probably the most expensive state so you wouldn't want to pay local prices for food, water, housing, etc. From a purely cost viewpoint, the best way to afford it all is for all the states to pool their money together and just pick say the top 5 cheapest places to live and distribute them among those areas.

[@jaykay5142]

@@jakew1362 Exactly. These states have high salaries, high cost of living, etc. and so are wildly inefficient, funding-wise. Just doing a quick search on numbeo for cost of living difference between Honolulu and OKC gives us about 25% cheaper. Honestly, a very good savings rate, especially when we're talking about tens or even hundreds of millions. And that doesn't even account for economies of scale. Adding that, we're talking easily at least 30%, maybe more.

[@monkeybarmonkeyman]

Once worked for mental health organization in Phoenix, Arizona. When winter would hit with snow and cold weather north and east of Arizona (talking all the way to the east coast), "Greyhounders" would start arriving. States with excessive homeless and/or mentally challenged individuals would buy them a one-way ticket to Phoenix on a Greyhound bus. Hawaii is now going to do the same thing it seems, but since a Greyhound bus isn't available, they'll fly them, give them some seed money and say "now don't you come back now, you hear?" Can't imagine the recipient states are going to like any action like this.

[@papabits5721]

Am confused, why is he there if he wants to be somewhere else.

[@E_l_l_i_e]

This is an honest question from someone from a third world country: why is the US not building more shelters with programs on life skills training, substance abuse rehabilitation and employment assistance? A good program will probably get a few off the streets for good. I get the relocation solution if the homeless population are mostly refugees or illegal migrants, but that seems to be not the case.

[@rachelsill79]

Why don't you do it?

[@alexaplaybtsbts463]

We r a third world country only the elities have money and the wealthy are the ones leading the country. People not born into wealth in the u.s are literally one pay check away from being homeless themselves. The u.s is a 3rd world country wearing a gucci belt

[@rawspace1212]

Instead of taking responsibility for the housing crisis here in hawaii, the government chooses to blame the states, further fueling the segregation and the racism here.

[@nhmooytis7058]

Because then the people who work in the homeless ‘industry’ couldn’t make 6 figure incomes.

[@cullenbohannon1408]

Because homelessness is a choice here in America. They want to live like that.

[@Leung-kf6ei]

I think that's a great idea, however.... How exactly do the Hawaiian authorities think people from the mainland got there to begin with? Great sending them to the mainland but if they want Hawai'i, they will just fly back to Hawai'i

[@BOOBI123]

Get rid of the airports so everybody want to go Hawaii has to surf there. No know surf, no can go Hawaii. Dats it.

[@imanoldurango8213]

@@BOOBI123you don’t know much about surfing do you

[@jeretso]

You will need a passport or Real ID to board a plane starting next week. If they go back to the mainland and lose their ID it will be very hard to get back to Hawaii. Mine expired and it was a pain to renew.

[@Leung-kf6ei]

@@jeretso you don't say. Smh

[@rawspace1212]

Instead of taking responsibility for the housing crisis here in hawaii, the government chooses to blame the states, further fueling the segregation and the racism here.

[@turkeysnot1]

If they hate working and love doing drugs, California is the perfect place.

[@victorplitt9117]

Hawaii's government has got to go. The way they're handling the homelessness is just pathetic. Overpricing everything that only caters to the rich and elite while showing no care for the poor shows how pathetic their government is.

[@trustmemysonisadoctor8479]

Not trying to be rude BUT the Hawaiian Islands are out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, most goods need to be shipped in by boat and that is expensive so things cost more. The Hawaiian government has no control over shipping costs. They have the same problem with prices in Alaska as shipping costs are high.

[@tbessy1963]

Lol.

[@robperkins2674]

Sounds like America not just one state

[@MurakamiTenshi]

Always has been

[@ChernobylPone]

Governor giving taxbreaking and benefits to he rich n elites, while other label as homeless and on welfare trying to get rid of them.

[@jakeolthof]

How about using the enormous budget surplus to house people who live here instead of spending money to help families in other states.

[@InsiderBoy]

Why? That money can be used to help people who actually deserves it or improve the living conditions of those that actually paid taxes and not these A-holes who failed at life.

[@jakeolthof]

@@InsiderBoy so you think the people that work hard for their money and had it taken from them by the Hawaiian government don't deserve the fruit of their labors? You sound like you would be really at home with the way that the government philosophy is in California. I'm talking to people that unlike you actually have jobs and pay income tax in this place.

[@paxundpeace9970]

It is cheaper to send them to the contious USA Not much space on an island

[@David53D]

Americans all have the same rights.

[@jaad9848]

nobody is getting helped either way. even this solution is just to make them another state’s problem. i doubt they are stringently checking there are relatives at the destination

[@mauricioiii3153]

Have these politicians driven down the Waianae coast lately ??? Every foot of beach space is taken up by a homeless “camp” !!!! How do you send them home they are local !!

[@ontheroad5555]

They are sending non Hawaiian people home. Like the man from Boston who has a hard time moving his wheelchair through the snow.

[@V.Oakley]

People are suffering here too buddy. Looks like some of them are native to Hawaii.

[@thekenthouse6428]

Maybe Texas can send a small percentage of their recent arrivals from the southern border over to make up for their displacement. As a heavily Democratic-leaning state, there shouldn't be any problem with this, right?

[@newthrash1221]

Good for them, honestly. Tired of red states shipping their homelessness problems to states like California and Hawaii.

[@sunnyscott4876]

Homeless In Honolulu...sounds like an 80s movie 🎬 Sleepless in Seattle.

[@cruisecontrol7911]

😭😭😭

[@richk3135]

When I lose my home I think I'm gonna head over to Hawaii and clog up their social services for a change of scenery. Yeah, that would be nice.

[@bashirijones7008]

The truth no one acknowledges: as world population grows, as robotics handles most of the heavy lifting jobs, there is no way every adult can have a job. Not feasible or probable. Most of the world WILL be unemployed, which means most will not be able to afford housing. Don't you think it would be good idea to start planning now, rather than just reacting and sweeping things (people) under the rug?

[@Cycling_Arizona]

Most homeless are mentally ill or have alcohol and drug addiction.

[@thomastaylor8657]

I have a ton of jobs. Honestly there are on average 300 hours of work available within 10 feet

[@bashirijones7008]

@@thomastaylor8657 if you read again, closely, you will realize I am talking about the future. The Future. Not the present. Not Now. Sadly most that work multiple jobs, where I live (perhaps not were you live), either barely make a living or barely sleep. I know grandparents working more to help kids that are also working. We are getting paid less for the same job or for more work. It is very difficult. Now....envision 50...40...30...even 20 years into the future. Automated factories and trucks and shipping. Higher and higher rents. More expensive less healthy food. And a population maybe close to 12...15 billion. 2/5 of adult age and able to work. Does not look good!

[@PInk77W1]

Jobs are not static.

[@PInk77W1]

@@bashirijones7008 world population to top off at 10.4 billion in 2080 and then go down.

[@arthurwatts1680]

How does a homeless person, presumably living week to week, afford airfare to Hawaii ? Then presumably a cab downtown, where they just rock up to a shelter in time for a meal ? I must be missing something here.

[@thaimassage23]

Your NOT lol

[@valeriepickens2533]

THIS IS NOT SOLVING THE PROBLEM, IT'S JUST MAKING IT SOMEONE ELSE'S PROBLEM!!

[@johnjay6370]

The problem can not be solved. There will always be homeless, there will always be people taking advantage of the system. Throwing money at the problem does not fix the problem. It is a mess. If you have a strong family that loves each other and helps, the chances of being homeless goes down alot. If you are waiting for the government to do something, you will remain homeless.

[@valeriepickens2533]

@johnjay6370 In every state, there is a law that senior students studying psychology can not practice on actual patients until they graduate and has a veteran psychologist to sit in with their first patients. Change those rules, and allow these senior students to practice on homeless people while being supervised. A families love and appreciation can be replaced if the non family cares enough...this has been proven many times over because of the families splitting up in the past. Start a program where the homeless work, where others don't want to, and offer them a small community of shipping container homes. Allow them to run it themselves, but have at least one city council member from a nearby community there to keep a constant eye on them. Drug dogs will be at the front gates, as well as breathalyzer test. Give them one year to adjust through therapy and then shut down all local forest from overnight camping. Never say a problem can't be solved,...without completely looking into the problem! and don't think so much less of your neighbors than you do yourself! You wouldn't like it if they did that to you.

[@johnjay6370]

@@valeriepickens2533 I wish it could be solved, but it is deep and very complex. I agree that we still have to try and solve it and out side the box thinking needs to be tried because what we are doing is not working. I do not think less of anyone if i sounded like that I am sorry. I have family members that will go homeless without family support, that is just a fact. They are autistic and will never be able to make it without help. That is why a family is so important. As a father I will never let my kids go homeless and they will always have a home as long as i am alive. Some families are not like that, and it is sad.

[@kobragangbit]

Wheres the Huge areolas guy

[@tonycarpaccio9550]

It's like a bot or something right?

[@alexgray8804]

He’s right above you😂

[@catchumifyoucan]

Hes in here. Hes always in here

[@heresteven]

Send him to the mainland, no return

[@catchumifyoucan]

@@heresteven or put him in aplace with no service or wifi 🤣

[@IOERROR622]

That politician didn't believe for one second he was doing it for the good of those homeless people. I swear every politician is a scumbag.

[@belleve5709]

This was exactly happened in early 70s in California, they offered up to 10,000 to large families on welfare to leave for up to 10 years. My husband and I were stationed there in Air Force we could barley afford to eat. And knew quite a few families that relocated to Texas, They packed up cars,trucks,kids dogs and away they went. The first move they were given 3000 to move and then paid after 1 year. It made me angry then, does now. I live in a state that does same thing, these homeless show up with warm weather spring and then claim freezing starving conditions and want to go back home. They panhandle for money, but refuse food. Our town tells them to move on your not welcome, few stay,but I feel for the tax payers, we have no choice but to stay and pay high prices. When I lived in Arizona 14 years ago homelessness seemed a full time occupation for some. One such highway beggar on his site in Tempe raised 67,000 in cash. Just armed with small sign and freindly smile ,please help. I remember helping him drop off cold water, hot coffee and a dollar or two. But when the article came out that he was a student doing a thesis for his masters I felt duped. He donated all the money to local charities,but he hurt the community. They have really craked down on pan handlers but it's gone to far. Tent city is now tent state. Many go there for weather , hurting those that can't afford to live,or leave! People use to work for a living, now they pick a state and move,and maybe move again. I've been homeless,with small children lived in broken down cars,and empty buildings, but I worked my tail off to get out of that situation ,no one wants to work anymore! There are solutions but people don't like the answers. Get a job, work for food, if it isn't yours don't touch it. Being born entitles you to nothing. Share with less fortunate children and teach them how to work not take

[@grabbagool]

"They panhandle for money, but refuse food".- that's because they're not starving. public policy is geared to drive down the cost of food and to drive up the cost of housing. there's hardly anyone alive that was around when it was typical for impoverished people in america to be severely underfed yet they still "feed the homeless". in fact offering food to homeless people is one of the least charitable things a person can do because it costs them so little because food is cheap.

[@c00mgoblin]

… Imagine FLYING (paying money) to Hawaii, one of the most expensive states in America (and most isolated), and having no plan, no money, and nowhere to go? Make it make sense! What was the point?

[@carlgharis7948]

December

[@Swampyankeehomestead]

Have you ever been in Boston during the winter? Stay in Hawaii my brothers!

[@accesstw28]

Find a remote island with out people and send them there.

[@carlinmccormick1105]

It would have been interesting to hear what motivated them to travel to Hawaii in the first place too.

[@derekoverhage9180]

They probably got tired of sleeping in the cold city streets and wanted better weather.

[@DanerisV]

The person in the wheel chair said that the winters in Boston are too harsh for him. Also very difficult to get around in the ice and snow while in a wheel chair

[@ALLforROME]

meth

[@shirleykobayashi9193]

No. Snow. In. Hawaii

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

I'm curious why bums don't fly to North Dakota, to live there?

[@kushkingla7385]

Who ever said the family wants them back? There are reasons people end up the way they are. Not saying it’s a fault but lived experiences.

[@mastershredder2002]

yeah, send them back to the "mainland", SF. SF will enact the same policy and use taxpayer money to send them back to Hawaii. Free travel twice a year.

[@guavas66]

My friend worked as an orderly at the psych ward at a hospital here on the BI and says most of the people get free tickets from towns on the mainland that just want them out of there not caring about what happens. We need to find out who and where, send them the back and bill those towns for the cost. It's taking away from what little resources our local homeless population have.

[@user-vf6ru8gm9p]

I hope they have more compassion for the illegals that are headed their way. Very nimby of them.

[@jasestrickland1704]

I’m NIMBY to all freeloaders. But at the very least, these are citizens with some Federal benefits. Illegals are criminals, except in a Democratically deluded world.

[@themasterrogerdelgado]

Why did they buy a one way ticket to Hawaii to begin with?! They knew this would happen.

[@jessicatevnan3137]

That's right. That's how you know this whole idea is a scam made by politicians to skim money off each other. Somewhere kickbacks are moving around between airlines and the politicians who came up with this idea.

[@wigwam3270]

The city paid for it. Local govt had been doing this for years. They send “problem” people ie homeless, those with mental health issues, those that go to ER regularly to other places. Sometimes cops would drive them, or usually give them bus tickets. This is well known phenomenon if you’ve worked in EMS, law enforcement and social services. Many of the “problem child” cases are punted to other cities. I use to work where they’d pay fly for life (yes the expensive and important helicopter ambulance) on a routine patient hoping that person would stay in our city from 3 states away after he gets discharged.

[@lindac6919]

Their State Social Services pays for and sends them.

[@Automedon2]

They were homeless in Boston. Wouldn't you prefer to be homeless in Hawaii in the winter?

[@barnettmcgowan8978]

This isn't complicated. At some point in their life they had a job and money. The moved to Hawaii with that money. Later their financial situation fell through and they became homeless in Hawaii. While States have definitely shipped homeless people to other States, it is highly unlikely that any State would ever ship homeless people to Hawaii, as that would be just about the most expensive plane ticket they could buy. There are plenty of warm weather States in the lower 48 to ship off a "perceived problem" on the cheap. You could put them on a bus if you really wanted to save money.

[@tiffytravels]

i have been to multiple islands in hawaii. i have spent lots of time there and have friends there. the homeless crisis is out of hand. such a shame. i have gotten my property stolen by homeless people on WAKIKI shore.

[@denisehrabb2665]

The theft is everywhere, and so is are the homeless! We have a heart issue here, people want everything fofree & they get it either begging or stealing

[@loisaustin6200]

How can you be positive it was the homeless stealing your stuff? Hawaii has its fair share of locals committing crimes and always has.

[@know-body2519]

Is Hawaii it's own country again? Good for them!

[@email5023]

Yea, it is gonna be a sh**hole country owned by the Chinese.

[@David-qp4jq]

Totally illegal You can't just drop off unhouse people in another state because you don't like it !!!!!!!!!!

[@happygrandma4ruthP]

This is so heartbreaking. The human race is declining and no one is paying attention or they just don't care anymore 😢

[@rhuttrho88]

They didn't listen as children. Can't teach an old dog new tricks!

[@glenburrows7162]

Well grandma,your money is just as green as anyone else's.Anty up.

[@bigteddy9843]

​@@glenburrows7162 😂😂👍👍

[@jrsoto8284]

How did they end up is the first place and second where did they get the money togo wtf krazy!

[@Heart2HeartBooks]

And tell me @ponyk1328..........how many homeless do you have living in your nice house? Do you care?

[@clchawaii09]

I guess when your homeless Hawaii does sound like a good place to be. It’s tough to say what I would or wouldn’t do. I know I would want to live somewhere safe and comfort to live outdoors.

[@thaimassage23]

I assume most houseless sleep with one eye open all the time.

[@tobereed]

Took long enough. I remember when the state "investigated" this and found only one case, and said this was just a rumor.

[@rawspace1212]

Instead of taking responsibility for the housing crisis here in hawaii, the government chooses to blame the states, further fueling the segregation and the racism here.

[@kelliott7864]

This is what oregon needs to do. So many homeless here come from Texas, Florida, etc. Take care of your own people.

[@carolferguson19]

Very good idea‼️ Please work hard on this. It's so much easier on the mainland. Hawaii is the most expensive state to live in. Housing is limited and very 💲💲💲🌴 Mahalo 🙏✌️🤙

[@Jianju69]

It's almost as if the homeless do NOT have the right to live in whichever city they desire. What an idea!

[@LunarLizard]

They can stay with you

[@Jianju69]

@@LunarLizard No, they cannot. They can go live in a shelter in another city.

[@AntilleanConfederation]

When blue states get a taste of what red states deal with. Lmaooo

[@cullenbohannon1408]

Homelessness is a choice in America.

[@guslevy3506]

We should have a Draft and Trading system like the pro leagues for the Homeless…make “player” cards for each homeless person. Then in the back, they can add valuable info like yrs homeless, what drugs they like, what panhandling techniques they prefer, how many arrests they have had, etc. Then cities can trade them based on a value system. We can even make up Fantasy Leagues for this thing…call it the National Homeless Association (NHL is already taken)…

[@paigeturner7788]

Lmao..that’s hilarious! 🤣

[@Luuuuuie]

😂😂😂😂

[@shawnmurray9964]

Wow guy, really tempting fate there, good luck with that. 🤮

[@guslevy3506]

@@shawnmurray9964 Got it…I’ll mark you down as not joining the Fantasy League.

[@bigcockedman714]

are we pricing this in fentanyl or meth?

[@piilania]

The airlines should sponsor free flights. They profited from bringing them here. Time for them to give back to the communities they unduly overburden with their profiteering!

[@123downthecount5]

A lot of mainland homeless get free Hawaiian vacations by getting a state paid flight to Hawaii then sent back to there home state after there vacation is over.. They really are tactical!!

[@michaelm4514]

How do you even have money to get to Hawaii in the first place?

[@highinquisitorvanwiller8904]

Yeah, that's how you fix the problem, ship it away. Lets go Brandon.

[@Venice666]

Send them to Venice beach California 🎉❤🎉❤

[@vixtex]

They are already there

[@RightWingPoliceOfficer]

you have to admit...this is pretty hilarious...Hawaii is deporting U.S. citizens...lol

[@ekekelaridgeway2190]

Didn’t we do this before? Stop them before they come like customs do. Ask them the reason they’re coming here & that they are secure with a job, housing etc. . Get with it politicians. Who pays for them to get home… the ppl of Hawaii. Ridiculous. Stop them before they come.

[@LotusHart01]

Perhaps one day I might eat these words, but I don’t think society should be kind towards homeless humans. Once an individual ceases from contributing to greater society in at least some capacity, they must be dealt with sternly. Otherwise it will spread like a virus, like we’ve seen. It’s not a good idea to incentivize the worst attributes of human behavior.

[@LBSKINHEADARMY]

California needs to do the same

[@essieessie5399]

Exactly, 90% of the homeless in CA are from other States. If you provide it (CA), they will come!