US immigration authorities cancel visas for cruise ship workers over child abuse images
SAN DIEGO (AP) — US immigration authorities have canceled the visas of greater than two dozen folks, together with some who labored on a Disney Cruise Line ship, amid allegations that they possessed or had seen child sexual abuse images.
US Customs and Border Protection stated in a press release Friday that authorities boarded eight cruise ships in late April and decided that 27 folks, principally from the Philippines, have been concerned in “the receipt, possession, transportation, distribution, or viewing” of child sexual abuse images.
The company canceled the visas of these concerned and returned them to their house international locations, the assertion stated.
The company didn’t say if any passengers aboard the ships have been believed to be victims. It additionally didn’t say which ships brokers boarded, why these ships have been focused or the place the operations befell. The assertion stated no extra info was out there.
At least among the ships had docked in San Diego.
Disney Cruise Line in a press release stated the corporate has a “zero-tolerance policy for this type of behavior and fully cooperated with law enforcement. While the majority of these individuals were not from our cruise line, those who were are no longer with the company.”
Immigrant and workers’ rights teams stated they’d been attempting, with out success, to acquire details about the standing of the workers and the explanation behind the enforcement motion. Benjamin Prado, with one of many teams, Unión del Barrio, stated they held a information convention Tuesday in San Diego after beforehand receiving a generic assertion from Customs and Border Protection.
The assertion the company subsequently launched to information organizations this week didn’t seem like on the company’s web site, he stated. That info must be readily accessible, he stated.
Prado stated his group needs to raised perceive what sort of monitoring or surveillance may need been occurring forward of the workers being detained and whether or not due course of rights have been adopted. He acknowledged skepticism round info launched by companies like Customs and Border Protection.
“At this point, we doubt, we question their claims and so we do want to follow up with some of these workers to find out exactly what took place,” Prado stated.
Customs and Border Protection has stated {that a} prison cost isn’t required for somebody’s visa to be revoked.
