Originally Posted by
gretchendz
The ones I was thinking of leave LA, make a stop in Ensenada, then go on to Hawaii.
Those only work for round trip returns to LA. For a one way trip, the Ensenada stop wouldn’t qualify as a distant foreign port as required under the PVSA rules for one way cruise between two different US ports.
For a one way to Hawaii, the OP would have to find a cruise departing Vancouver (a few lines used to do one ways that started in Ensenada but don’t anymore because of various issues) or on a US ship like NCL’s Pride of America.