they flew them over here and now they're just homeless on the streets streets nowhere to go trying to get back many of the more recent homeless here in Honolulu came after receiving a one-way ticket from the mainland this is Paradise I was like well I better be in a warm state while this may look like paradise the reality is that it's far from it as homeless people from the mainland take one-way flights to Hawaii they arrive here to find violence drug addiction an overwhelming lack of resources and an unexpected hatred for white people but who
is shipping these homeless people here do they want to return to the mainland and how is life on Paradise after they've gotten here I flew here with my friend and homeless expert Kevin to find out and quickly noticed countless tents strung out along the beach even though this is beautiful and it feels great yeah you're never really gonna get your needs my hair you live on this beach as well yes I try to watch out for some of the women down here because they get hurt as you know these people down here they do a
lot of drugs I've had people come from different parts of this island all happy and everything like that and they don't know the people down here and what they're capable of I've watched many people get beat up and hurt it's not very safe why is it dangerous let's say for instance you guys were staying down here now okay then things like that that camera he's carrying these things anything that looks like it's money I've seen so many I've warned people so many times well it's interesting I mean we're standing literally in the middle of a
paradise and what you're describing definitely is not a paradise no that mountain has a lot of them wow okay we might have to go see what's going on over there oh yeah but please be careful with you guys appreciate your help rolling off plate eyeballing the heck out of us there's definitely some drug activity he's approaching us right now notice our cameras yeah and now he just took a photo of us yo all right we're on The Hit List after narrowly avoiding getting jumped by a fentanyl user we made our way towards a mountain rumored
to house homeless people tired of getting their tents swept off the beach definitely not the smartest idea to just get out of the car go past the fence that's clearly barricaded government property no trespassing we're about to go to the secret homeless Camp behind this mountain we are going to trespass and check up on these people let's go we're gonna do a quick peripheral scope of the environment here be aware of our surroundings just a little bit let's walk and also let's keep an eye on our six how you doing can you describe maybe some
of the the challenges being homeless out here challenges are the what they'll just trying to get um resources okay basic needs daily needs water food have you notice a lot of people out here on the beach struggle with drug dependency or anything like that a lot of them have been in this situation for a long got their entire lives so they're born into homelessness okay a lot of them it's part of the culture the drug use I mean alcohol I met marijuana is around good I mean you see you see a lot of damage people
from out here damage I mean sexual abuse do people come in here and take your tents away they used to come in and sweet give you and normally if it's a sweep and a lot of people have a lot more stuff than it takes more than 24 hours to get you can get moved more than a handful of cases where people have had loved ones ashes in their accounts and the whole thing just been put into a container and how often would this camp it's been almost two years since okay so that's impressive yeah I
mean it's a cool setup you have by the way Tim yeah continue to walk around yeah absolutely so it seems like this is the spot to be you want to live uh someone excluded how you doing live over there yeah in the back what do you need a housing some place to stay I mean okay give them the first one and if they mess up that's on them do you think a lot of people would succeed in that situation that's one thing so right now what are you using a little bit of water and uh
we so water and weed yes sir that could be a lot worse what do you think's holding you back out here life okay life on his own terms everybody get their own problems y'all people are violent well get some people who do do the drugs and they act weird they can't handle it you mean my name is Sean basically a while ago I trusted my godmother basically screwed me over okay took everything and how long you been here since about almost six months but this is my mom's then so I mean we've seen a lot
of people with just holes in the dirt on the beach this is a kind of a luxury setup out here with a beautiful view how long do you plan on staying out here as long as after I guess what's the plan if any there is no plan you guys love it it's beautiful it's Paradise out here this is Paradise but I grew up there would always be people that know us today I I'm 31 and I walk the street is empty like hell why is ain't nobody where'd people go good question is fentanyl running amok
out here what's what's going on I'm guessing that's what's killing us off you use yeah can only speak for myself yes meth sometimes a small cake cocaine weed and tobacco okay do you have like are there a lot of dealers out here on Oahu I have some but most of us just give out each other out of Aloha but it's hard to find Aloha nowadays what do you mean by that look around for the community the sense of community has been lost do you think it's been lost for a while but I give you guys
credit takes a hell of a lot yeah what you guys doing why is that not just make it sound as a threat you ain't gonna jump you yeah I mean you're YouTube but you should know the risk right now that's heavy so is that why you're so secluded out here and you chose this Camp yeah to be away from people who are dangerous look at that I got chicken skin what does that mean does that mean I'm happy because oh don't you care oh yeah yeah that's powerful oh so you're getting Goosebumps it shows that
not all white men are bad okay so is that a recurring like thought out here yeah people are afraid of white people if you listen to our music who's the one man we hate on in our music white man exactly is it because of the history of Hawaii out here yeah I'm here to say white man is not all bad we thanks brother what percentage of people that are homeless out here come from Hawaii versus come from the mainland it's time to get the mainland homeless okay apparently downtown Waikiki is where people from the mainland
get shipped to on a one-way flight from whatever city they're from so we headed there to find out if this was really true we see some camps over here we've noticed that some of these people don't even need tents to sleep weather's so nice out here a lot of people are just sleeping on the grass itself Kevin you were here almost two years ago what are your thoughts has this changed seems to have gotten worse I would say there's about 50 percent more homeless certainly in the Honolulu Waikiki area I don't know why so we're
gonna go talk with a few and see what we can learn climate wise it's a great place to be homeless but for every other reason in the world it's not it's expensive there's really no running water we're seeing a lot of shopping carts a lot of tents but also people on the ground itself this is a uh obviously it's a old park now we use is really a small homeless accountant how did you end up here well you know yeah divorce got on a plane where are you originally from Illinois and you've been in for
10 years but yeah have you ever tried to get out of here it's not so easy uh no identification that's the biggest problem did you ever ID stolen from you yeah I am do local Hawaiians that are homeless out here get mad at guys like you from out of state you do realize they hate white people right can you explain that a little bit man you had to have somebody blamed so they blame white people sure you know have you experienced any of that out here oh yeah yeah yeah yeah it's more than you could
ever imagine sure yeah and are you seeing an inflow States are like you just sort of chose a different destination and got stranded yeah you know I I you do see a lot coming from from the mainland but uh they all got they all got different reasons you know different uh you know you expect weather is going to be nice and you know you expect people are gonna be nice and whatnot I think things are going to go well look at this we've heard a lot of people get swept or oh yeah every every day
every week you know at least at least once a week usually twice a week they uh they come and they'll take everything people own and then give them tickets to campaign and take everything that they have you know so they get tickets to wear tickets to court oh to court yeah people end up in jail well yeah you can end up in jail I mean have you been arrested I've been arrested yeah stay safe out here yeah I think they're nodding out to our left dudes on the floor if you look for that underlying tension
here going on here in on Oahu between the native Hawaiians and basically white people it's an underlying tension between the locals and the mainlanders that get shipped here I went closer to the tourist epicenter of Waikiki to see how many homeless people were stranded here and where they originally came from or on the other side of the island far more touristy but nonetheless despite all this money there is people's chilling sleeping living right on this beach looks like a local just on asleep on the ground flies on them uh where are you originally from originally
originally from Jamaica the island Jamaica and years what brought you to Hawaii well I was going to be homeless since I was like well I'd rather be in a warm State than a cool state but you know did they give you a plane ticket to come here I bought my ticket I didn't know I could get one okay and you've been here for how long oh eight months you like it out here yeah it's the goal to get into housing at some point eventually yeah but you know I'm just taking my time just seeing how
it goes did you put up at 10 tonight no I don't know about that so you're just sleep in a sleeping bag um no I have like a um a blanket and stuff I have to go on the sidewalk and is it relatively safe out here for you for me yeah for you you're a bigger guy but like my takeaway is a lot of people come here and they're like ah if I end up on the streets it is what it is but 10 years later you're still here and stuck here without enough resources to
ever escape are you from here Hawaii California okay what do you think strong people out of state here they're drawn to the idea of Hawaii I want to be in a paradise uh I'm I have trauma I'm struggling uh I think that the ocean and the beaches are gonna make me feel better they come here and realize this is a rude awakening I'm not really getting Services housing is too expensive housing wait lists are forever there's really no fresh water I mean people are just suffering out here the climate and weather is so nice out
here you can literally just there's a general lack of friendliness out here and it's just it's tough and it's sad on top of this General tension out here mental illness was common certainly wasn't helping people find their way out of this island are you from these parts are you from here any information for you okay the doctor's Secret Service okay oh the IRS so he's got some paranoia schizophrenia I thought you were the CIA were you on the CIA right there you want to share with us really quickly what it's like to be homeless in
a while yeah yeah okay see you okay so Kevin what's the diagnosis serious mental health issues and I wish we had a place to send them would you be willing to tell me a little bit about your story and how you ended up here okay my story is way different and I'm telepathic okay I please don't think I'm crazy because I'm not crazy you telepathic abilities do you have telepathic villains do you hear other people's voices in your head no no I've actually never experienced that no like uh it's not it's not visual or hearing
audio it's inside your brain I can hear my own voice in my head my voice it sounds like my boyfriend's voice and and but I can also hear other people and I've gone up to them and I'm like you know you don't have to tell me but did you say this and do you say that and they just look at me I actually came from Texas okay where did I moved from Illinois actually we left the island and came back and ever since then I've been homeless and that's when I started smoking meth I never
smoked meth before until I was 48. and I started having back problems and I got addicted to pain pills and Fentanyl fentanyl was a patch that I wore I was prescribed by a doctor never did it illegally have you noticed that more people are out of state and from the mainland then send them over here and they told them that they had housing and a job over here and why these people didn't call I don't know but they actually even bought their airline ticket they flew them over here the city bought tickets for these people
to live here homeless they told them that they had to have housing and jobs and bought them tickets over here when they got over here there's no such company and now they're just homeless on the streets streets nowhere to go trying to get back things are so bad have you noticed there's nobody out go to Chinatown yeah there's nobody things are bad and it's gonna get a lot worse well it was a pleasure telling you I mean I know she'll deny it but clearly there's some some schizophrenia right a lot of mental health issues at
a point of clarity she's like people are being sent here one-way plane tickets homeless people are being stranded in Hawaii what's up what's the biggest drug out here okay I can't believe what's good who's that right there is that weed is that nah yeah this is just he looks like Gordon Ramsay after meeting countless people stranded here from out of state we encountered something peculiar on our way back to the car this is interesting we got uh people living in tunnels in uh Honolulu oh you want to climb down I'd say so yeah you live
in this Tunnel right here I I've stayed down there like three or four nights by myself okay so it's easier to be on down there with the foreign do the water levels rise often very fast very fast all right Kevin you heard it straight from the source and while Kevin began exploring the tunnels I met another person stranded here where are you from get it um Fairbanks Alaska oh so you're from Alaska how did you get from Alaska to here uh I could play a Portland door again it's been a couple of years in uh
therapy okay in Portland Oregon due to some issues but then here didn't stop ever since and you've been in Oahu for how long uh I've been on the streets of 22 years are most people out of state like you yes Kevin finished exploring the rest of the tunnels I met someone above ground who recently had escaped the Maui fires fled to Oahu and was one day away from receiving transitional housing where are you from originally originally I'm from Georgia Georgia and how did you get here oh God it's a long story but um I was
actually married for a very long time my husband asked me where I would live if I wanted to live anywhere and I said Hawaii okay and what started off to be a dream turned into a nightmare basically we've been struggling since before the pandemic I left Kauai hoping to look at the market in Maui I left on the 7th and ended up in the fires in my first book oh so you came from Maui and then you got on a ticket to came here yeah I came from Maui to here and um I looked down
my purse was on fire and I was like you were in the middle of the Flames I was I was very scary it was very scary I don't know where Matt I'm lost and people aren't very nice anymore it's not that's what we've noticed too there's not the Aloha we saw in Maui no it's not um it's very um it's not like you know you're gonna help Grandma across the street with their groceries anymore now you're gonna beat her down and you're gonna take them from her what happened to the community out here I don't
know people are very inhumane and they're very cold and they're not empathetic or they're not even caring to put themselves in someone else's shoes I spent last night on the sidewalk out in front of housing because I told them I'm going to be there every night until I get this done and I got it done today congrats no that's thank you guys that's amazing right what happens to someone not as persistent as you you just end up on the streets the rest of your life out here you think yeah yeah you end up a statistic
I've been to the hospital several times this week wanting to take my own life wanting to end it because I just I'm very close get in tomorrow and this is as far as I push right now I don't have dog food for her I don't know where I'm going and um sad even though I feel like I've looked off or something I'm so sad what if we checked you into a local motel tonight I would be like in heaven can we make that happen your homelessness ends right now yeah because you're going to a shelter
tomorrow this is I think this brings a lot of Hope yeah of course I'm sorry I would just say this right this life is not for me this life is not for anyone really this breaks your cycle of homelessness forever today right now is the last modem you're almost if I can do it alone anyone can do it you just gotta know that it's going to be the hardest damn thing you've ever done I just want to be happy again I just want happiness jump in sweetie go go there we go there you go all
right Melissa [Music] Lexi come here we did it oh my goodness look at this oh there she is now she'll come alive now she will come alive we're excited to see your future get some nice dinner too oh my God thanks to Melissa's perseverance she received housing the next day and step by step she's working to rebuild a happy life for her and her pup if you see someone in need a small act of kindness might go a long way subscribe
