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U.S. Customs & Border Protection Detain and Deport Nine Crew Members From Victory #Cruise Ships, Claiming Possession of Child Pornography.

CBP is, apparently, scouring crew members' social media accounts for anything they can use to justify detention. One of the Victory I crew members was detained for a 2008 photo of his newborn being bathed in a bassinette. They are being forced to sign papers without due process or representation.

4/ The cruise ships can't sail if too many crew leave. Passenger mood is subdued. The Captain met with the crew & passengers. The crew cannot talk to the media, or they will be fired.

3/ CBP let the ship's engineer stay, because the boat could not leave the dock without him. They warned the ship he had to be replaced before the boat came back to Detroit, or he would be removed. Crew morale is terrible, & many are thinking of leaving now while they can.

2/ My source saw photos & video of being handcuffed & taken off the Victory I in view of crew & passengers. Captain was helpless to do anything. CBP is being given a list of all crew. They are scouring social media for anything they can use to detain the crew, such as the 17-year-old baby photo.

5/ The cruise ship owner is meeting the ship at Mackinac Island with their attorneys, who will be there when the ship docks. The company's meeting with CBP in Chicago. If they try to take any more crew off, it is said the media will be contacted.

I heard second-hand news from pilots aboard these vessels that 3 crew were removed from one of the vessels in Duluth & 16 were removed from the Viking cruise ships in Detroit. Supposedly, they were ordered to sign papers dealing with child porn. No due process, no evidence presented.

ICE is raiding cruise vessels at ports around the Great Lakes. Crew were handcuffed & removed over the last week: at least 16 in Detroit, 3 in Duluth. They were told to sign papers saying they were guilty of child pornography, then they'd be deported to the Philippines. Anyone heard anything?

Air quality measurements taken last week when cruise ships - such as NCL’s Norwegian Star - visited Cobh, in Ireland’s Cork Harbour, show air pollution levels up to more than 250 times higher than safe levels recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). www.eureporter.co/environment/...

"It's not pollution, it's just harmless water vapor" or similar blatherskite is the common refrain whenever NCL, Royal Caribbean or one of the Carnival Corporation brand ships🛳️🏴‍☠️belch emissions over a port due to burning high sulfur fuel. #cruise #pollution #GrouchoMarrx #RichardPryor

One crew member arrested & 10 deported by Customs & Border Protection during “cruise ship crack down” involving “child exploitation offenders." CBP concealed identity of cruise line, ship & crew, obscured faces of crew & didn't identify where they were deported. #maritime #child #crime #travel

#Alaska #cruise season opens with NCL's Norwegian Bliss🛳️smoking up the port in #Juneau.🫁😷 A disrespectful, nasty way to treat the residents of Juneau, Alaska🤐☠️ Photo taken by Kate Troll via Crew Center An ignominious way to begin the 2025 cruise ship season🤨 #travel #pollution #toxic #tourism

A bond was set in the total amount of $1,125,030.00 for former crew member on @cruisenorwegian.bsky.social Norwegian Bliss🛳️which is comprised of $75,020.00 for each of the 15 felony charges. It is the highest bond I have seen for the last 20 or so crew members arrested for possession of CSAM.

An 18 year-old cruise passenger is facing a charge in Broward County after he & a gang of others beat and bloodied another passenger to the point of unconsciousness while on the Royal Caribbean Liberty of the Seas🛳️ last Friday, according to WPLG Local 10 News.

Customs & Border Protection found drugs upon return of a @RoyalCaribbean #cruise ship🛳️at Port of Galveston April 20th. Jeffrey Don Conkey age 63 of Texas was returning on Harmony of the Seas when officers found over 70 grams of heroin mixed with fentanyl & 95 grams of THC vape oil in his luggage.

The CDC is now lacking the staff & resources to continue cruise ship health inspections under the Vessel Sanitation Program The cut back comes at a crucial time for the cruise industry which is experiencing an unprecedented number of gastrointestinal outbreaks on ships via @cruiselaw.bsky.social

It looks like great fun. 🛳️🌊 But when I first watched the video, I felt nervous. I instantly thought that the window facing the bow of the #cruise ship might blow in causing a deadly☠️influx of water into the ship (which occurred to the Louis Majesty cruise ship 15 years ago).

At $23,566,603 compared to median employee salary of a Carnival crew member ($16,854), Carnival Corp's 🛳️🏴‍☠️Josh Weinstein brings home 1,398 times 💸💸more than the median Carnival employee. Not to mention a luxury car allowance, executive medical insurance, country club membership, and other perks.

The usual PR response when there's a norovirus outbreak on a #cruise🛳️🤢🤮is to cast blame on guest's “dirty hands.” But given that in the majority of cruise cases contaminated food is the primary culprit, you can wash your hands non-stop but inevitably become sick when contaminated food is involved.

What safety training and instruction did this 73 year-old #cruise passenger receive before she began the excursion? 🚢⚠️

14 year old boy targeted by 2 men, one with HIV, in cruise ship sauna on Royal Caribbean Independence of the Seas🚢⚠️ An adult last sexually attacked a 14 year old on Royal Caribbean cruise ship sauna 1 year ago. Men face charges of lewd & lascivious exhibition and molestation of a child.🥹

Excursion boat from AIDAbella #cruise ship capsizes near the Barú Peninsula, Cartagena, Colombia with 38 guests aboard. Fortunately no reports of casualties. via Crew Center crew-center.com/38-cruise-sh...

Imagine going on a luxury #cruise on Cunard’s Queen Anne which holds 3,350 passengers & fares for its first-ever world voyage begin at $16,379 per person, only to be ordered to hide for two days when passing through the Sulu and Celebes seas? Would you knowingly sign up for this? #cruise #law

Crowded local ICE facilities and a temper-tantrum-fool-of-a-president openly defiant of the courts. Make America Great Again! #MAGA #trump #ICE Via @alexldeluca21.bsky.social of @miaminewtimes.com

With huge thanks & acknowledgment to these superb organizations without whose research & publications we would not be able to do our work to hold the cruise industry accountable & support our port & community. @foeus.bsky.social @theicct.org @pacenvironment.bsky.social

Latest outbreak on HAL Rotterdam brings the total number to 510 passengers infected on HAL #cruise ships, in addition to 51 crew members. Both the #CDC & the #FDA conclude that the most common cause of @norovirus outbreaks is contaminated food and/or water. But cruise lines blame "dirty hands."

Woof! Woof! Glad to read that @Lexblog picked our #cruise #law #news #blog and the popular #food #safety blog by Bill Marler as examples of "watchdog lawyers" . . . www.99parkrow.com/2025/03/we-n...

Released in 1990 by the Vaughn Brothers on "Family Style." "Tic Tock" is today's song to help you thru the next 4 years. youtu.be/N8uUTW9zPbM?... It's not what you'd expect from 2 hard-charging blues guitar-playing brothers. It's a gentle, sweet song which could easily have been written in 1967.

Growing scientific evidence shows toxic poisons from scrubber discharge damage the environment & humans☠️⚠️ SE Alaska waters, heavily trafficked by #cruise 🏴‍☠️🚢ships, receive more than 25,000 tons of scrubber discharge daily from just 1 medium-sized cruise ship. alaskabeacon.com/2025/02/19/c...

It's amazing, every time there's a fire on a #cruise ship🚢💥 the fire is always "small" and "quickly" extinguished . . . www.thestreet.com/travel/socia...

Cruise ships are a notorious environment for foodborne outbreaks & #norovirus, thanks to close living conditions & shared dining. But 2025 is already looking to be an especially bad year for #cruise vacations, gastrointestinal-wise, with 7 outbreaks in the past 6 weeks. gizmodo.com/this-years-c...

Trump is resorting to his recidivist criminal ways. No surprise here . . . #Trump #MAGA #Musk #RatBastard www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

No wonder MAGA is between confused & pissed. #SuperBowl #MAGA #HalftimeShow #KenrickLamar #MUSK #Trump #Racism #Discrimination www.facebook.com/cruiselaw/po...

Today’s song: Glenn Campbell's “Galveston,” a # 1 hit in 1969. Campbell's recording was a Vietnam War protest song: www.facebook.com/cruiselaw/po... When I consider those who died in Vietnam, Trump was a worthless draft-dodger whose daddy used “bone spurs” to obtain him deferments from the draft.

So Musk, the son of a South African slave trader dynasty & apartheid supporter, sold Trump the dummy pass that Afrikaners are being racially abused? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u... (By the way, it looks like that was a heil Hitler salute by Musk) #Trump #Musk #Racism #Nazi #MakeAmericaRacistAgain

Money grubbing NCL Cruise Line🚢 overcharged a guest with the flu $47,000⚠️ last week, and then recently over-charged two grandmothers . . . "they weren’t terribly kind about it.” www.azfamily.com/2025/02/07/b...

Trump shows his true colors, a selfish grifter who views the presidency just as a transactional tool to enrich himself. #Trump #MAGA #MAGAMUTANTS www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Lots of champagne bottles popping in Moscow and Beijing tonight, as America abandons the field. The tragic result of Trump’s “America Last” policy.

2 headlines tell us everything we need to know about #Musk, #Trump, #MAGA & #racism: Staffer with #Musk's DOGE amplified white supremacists online www.reuters.com/world/us/sta... Musk to rehire Treasury DOGE staffer behind racist posts after #Trump endorses idea www.cnbc.com/2025/02/07/e...

Yesterday, I made the mistake of watching TV when the program cut away to cover Trump speaking live at the National Prayer Breakfast. #Trump #Christianity #God #Musk #Hypocrisy #MAGA www.facebook.com/cruiselaw/po...

Pardoned January 6 rioter on run from solicitation of minor charge arrested

As Ray Davies wrote 55 years ago: “Girls will be boys & boys will be girls It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world” www.facebook.com/cruiselaw/po... Trump's MAGA gang chilled discussion of gender & sexual issues by spreading hatred toward anyone who looks or acts differently than MAGA mutants

Elon Musk’s allies are turning a once-obscure federal IT unit into the linchpin of their sweeping campaign to tear down the federal bureaucracy, sparking fears of improper overreach and chaos among tech employees in the government.

The polluting #cruise industry🏴‍☠️🛳️😷was inadvertently featured in "Only In Dade's" video on Instagram of 18,000 people running over I-395 to Miami Beach in the Miami Marathon/Half Marathon on Sunday. The background of one of the videos shows a Virgin Voyage cruise ship (the Scarlet Lady was in port)

Norwegian Cruise Line Rip-off🛳️🏴‍☠️Business as usual on the high seas, via NCL🚢🤡 . . . www.fox9.com/news/braham-...

The MAGA cult / virtually all Republicans are all walking in lockstep behind their Fuhrer . . . www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

#Cruise line🚢🏴‍☠️marketers love to fill their brochures with stunning photos of "historic cities, quaint villages, pristine beaches & breathtaking natural wonders." But today, "a growing number of ports😷are implementing restrictions or outright bans on cruise ships." www.forbes.com/sites/rogerd...