Roughly 270 Filipino seafarers — workers who form the backbone of global maritime trade — have been removed from US vessels and deported under an enforcement operation called 'Operation Tidal Wave,' without formal charges, legal convictions, or any meaningful opportunity to contest their removal. The Philippines, which supplies more seafarers to the world than any other nation, now faces a reckoning about how far its duty of care extends to citizens laboring far from home. Advocacy groups warn that when workers can be erased from their livelihoods without due process, the human architecture su
Filipino groups demand protection for 270 seafarers deported from US without due process
270 Filipino seafarers were removed from employment and deported without due process, affecting their livelihoods and families' futures.