“But they looked Hispanic!!!”
“They assaulted us!”

into the shape of an elephant at us!"

Captain Jack Sparrow is their leader.

Is that considered US soil? An they still work for Carnival Cruises then as long as they don't get off the boat in the States?

they come under US legal jurisdiction. They would be safe if it was international waters.

If there was no jurisdiction except on land, there would be no need for a Coast Guard.

If ICE grabbed crew members off Chinese, Japanese, or Korean freighters there would be hell to pay.

Sadly, it may come to that.

For now they are preying upon the weak. The government of the Philippines and the cruise lines are not likely to toss any matches at the gasbag king.

To meet the quotas.

I can’t defend the environmentally disastrous Carnival cruise ships, filling the oceans and atmosphere with contaminants, including dumping all their plastic waste. They get away with violations everyday. But this is not right. The Filipino workers work on American ships doing grueling jobs they can’t get enough Americans to do for slave wages, starting as low as 1000 a month. More disgusting ICE brutality.

So is this happening in Miami also? Seattle?

And those ships are largely staffed with foreign workers. Why were just the Filipino workers arrested? Why not the employees who were East European or Turkish or South American? Are they next?

This is insane. Cruise ships cannot operate without foreign workers. Maybe it's time for them to avoid any and all American ports.

from the article:

"Soriano Versoza said the cases in Norfolk are unlike previous cases of cruise ship employees involved with child pornography...
When accused crew members ask to see evidence that would incriminate them, authorities have nothing to show, she said."

And kind of funny, don't you think, that possession of child porn is limited only to the Filipinos and not to the thousand other foreign workers on the boat. I think this is specific targeting of the lowest workers on the rung, the ones who are most helpless to defend themselves. Plus, of course, racism.

Also, when ICE boarded the ship, how did they know ahead of time that these people possessed child porn? Or did they just pull the workers they wanted to abuse and make the accusations after the fact?

In the US. Who wants to leave with a 1/3 of the crew or more gone? You need every worker on a ship.

There are cruise stops in every port of the U.S.

What if some of these folks are integral to the ship moving? Engineers and such. The ship does not have multiple stand-ins for every position. And if they are service people on the ship, customers will get impatient with different things.

I figure folks going to court sessions, Home Depot Lots and cruise lines are easy pickings. The cruise line raids will become more popular with the government, unless bribes are paid to rump. It could put them out of business in the U.S..

I just got off a Disney cruise with the grandkids. Passengers from all over the world -- Europe, Asia, south America. Disney, being Disney, is incredibly LGBT-friendly and our dining room steward happily chatted about his husband. Entertainment by gay-friendly performers.

And Viking river cruises? I've never met a denser concentration of Trump haters in one place. They're travelers. They've been out in the world. They know how the rest of the world feels about Trump.

But this was a Carnival cruise ship.