US deports 26 Filipino seafarers in child pornography crackdown

26 Filipino seafarers deported and permanently barred from US entry; child victims of exploitation documented in enforcement operations.

In the final days of April, federal agents moved through eight cruise ships docked in San Diego and uncovered what the maritime industry rarely confronts openly: that distance from shore offers no immunity from the exploitation of children. Twenty-eight crew members — twenty-six of them Filipino — were arrested over five days of coordinated inspections, their visas cancelled and their careers ended by the weight of confirmed involvement in child sexual exploitation material. The operation is a reminder that the global seafaring workforce, vast and often invisible, carries with it the full rang

US deports 26 Filipino seafarers in child pornography crackdown

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