ICE is grabbing Filipino cruise ship employees by the 100s, claiming they accessed child porn, and deporting

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They all get the same charge..that they had a link to a child porn site on the phone. The trump administration hasn't shown proof to anyone

Why? Easy pickings to increase deportation numbers? The ships come into port, ice boards and grabs an easy to deport group.

https://www.cruiselawnews.com/2026/05/articles/crew-work-conditions-rights/over-200-deported-foreign-crew-members-u-s-federal-immigration-agents-continue-to-strip-cruise-workers-of-their-due-process-rights/

Agents from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stormed the Disney Magic after it docked in San Diego late last month, detaining 10 crew members, most of whom were led from the Disney cruise ship with their hands zip-tied behind their backs.

Last November, we reported that 200 crew members have been accused of possessing CSAM. Around 20 were arrested and prosecuted, with around 180 deported. That means less than one crew member in ten are arrested and prosecuted for possession of child pornography; the rest are deported to their home countries.

This raises the obvious question – why did CBP deport over 200 crew members for allegedly viewing CSAM but arrest and prosecute only 20 for the same conduct?

The raid on the Disney ship became widely reported only after a Disney cruise passenger, Dharmi Mehta, who was disembarking the ship with her family, said she was stunned to see the ship’s head waiter led away while shackled. Ms. Mehta recorded the spectacle of Disney ship employees still wearing Disney uniforms on the dock in San Diego as they were manhandled by armed CBP agents into white vans. She told the New Republic that while on the ship, she befriended the head waiter who told her that he has two daughters. She called the sight of cruise workers in uniform with their hands behind their backs, handcuffed and surrounded by Customs and Border Protection officers being pushed into vans “disheartening and unsettling.”

“This is not an isolated incident,” said Benjamin Prado from Union del Barrio. “In fact, it has become a growing pattern, not only here in San Diego but throughout this country.”