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U.S. migration authorities person cancelled the visas of much than 2 twelve people, including immoderate who worked connected a Disney Cruise Line ship, amid allegations that they possessed oregon had viewed c
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said successful a connection connected Friday (May 8, 2026) that authorities boarded 8 cruise ships successful precocious April and determined that 27 people, mostly from the Philippines, were progressive successful "the receipt, possession, transportation, distribution, oregon viewing" of kid intersexual maltreatment images.
The bureau cancelled the visas of those progressive and returned them to their location countries, the connection said.
The bureau did not accidental if immoderate passengers aboard the ships were believed to beryllium victims. It besides did not accidental which ships agents boarded, wherefore those ships were targeted oregon wherever the operations took place. The connection said nary further accusation was available.
At slightest immoderate of the ships had docked successful San Diego.
Disney Cruise Line, successful a statement, said the institution has a "zero-tolerance argumentation for this benignant of behaviour and afloat cooperated with instrumentality enforcement. While the bulk of these individuals were not from our cruise line, those who were are nary longer with the company".
Immigrant and workers' rights groups said they had been trying, without success, to get accusation astir the presumption of the workers and the crushed down the enforcement action. Benjamin Prado, with 1 of the groups, Unión del Barrio, said they held a quality league connected Tuesday (May 5) successful San Diego aft antecedently receiving a generic connection from Customs and Border Protection.
The connection the bureau subsequently released to quality organizations this week did not look to beryllium connected the agency's website, helium said. That accusation should beryllium readily accessible, helium said.
Mr. Prado said his radical wants to amended recognize what benignant of monitoring oregon surveillance mightiness person been occurring up of the workers being detained and whether owed process rights were followed. He acknowledged scepticism astir accusation released by agencies similar Customs and Border Protection.
"At this point, we doubt, we question their claims, and truthful we bash privation to travel up with immoderate of these workers to find retired precisely what took place," Mr. Prado said.
Customs and Border Protection has said that a transgression complaint is not required for someone's visa to beryllium revoked.
