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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers decided to crash the party on eight cruise ships docked in San Diego, California last month, including one of Disney’s floating cash machines, and hauled off 28 people in a serious child sexual exploitation material investigation.
Sounds Goofy to me, Mickey.
Video footage hit the internet this week showing immigration enforcement officers nabbing Disney employees right at the San Diego International Airport after the Disney Magic docked. This naturally sent the usual anti-ICE crowd into full meltdown mode.
One vacationer, Dharmi Mehta, caught video of a man she said was her server getting detained.“He was full in uniform, which was in a blazer, tie. Some of the other employees were still in their chef’s uniforms with their name tags on it,” Mehta said during a press conference on Tuesday.
Before anyone knew what the arrests were actually about, the usual immigration rights groups were already screaming bloody murder. Even after the child exploitation details came out, plenty of advocates still insisted these clowns deserved full U.S. criminal prosecutions instead of a quick ride out of the country. Priorities, folks.
The Port of San Diego made it clear their local cops stayed far away from the whole thing.“The Port of San Diego Harbor Police Department did not have any involvement in the reported enforcement actions on April 23rd or April 25th at the B Street Cruise Terminal,” a spokesperson for the port told NBC San Diego, emphasizing that Harbor Police does not enforce federal immigration law.
Federal agents boarded the vessels between April 23rd and 27th, a spokesperson for the agency told TMZ.
“After boarding the vessels and interviewing 26 suspected crew scumcrumpets from the Philippines, one suspected crew member from Portugal, and one from Indonesia, officers confirmed all individuals were involved in either the receipt, possession, transportation, distribution, or viewing of CSEM or child pornography,” a CBP spokesperson told the California Post.
The official added that the offenders’ visas were then canceled and that they were being removed from the United States.
Disney, in its usual corporate damage-control mode, wouldn’t say exactly how many of the pervs were on their payroll. The Mouse House did claim that most of the arrests did not involve staffers from its ship.
“We have a zero-tolerance policy for this type of behavior and fully cooperated with law enforcement,” a Disney spokesperson told the New York Post. “While the majority of these individuals were not from our cruise line, those who were are no longer with the company.”
The Disney cruise had just returned from a five-day voyage that included stops at Catalina Island and Ensenada in Baja California, Mexico.
“After boarding the vessels and interviewing 26 suspected crew scumcrumpets from the Philippines, one suspected crew member from Portugal, and one from Indonesia, officers confirmed all individuals were involved in either the receipt, possession, transportation, distribution, or viewing of CSEM or child pornography,” a CBP spokesperson told the California Post.
The official added that the offenders’ visas were then canceled and that they were being removed from the United States.
Disney, in its usual corporate damage-control mode, wouldn’t say exactly how many of the pervs were on their payroll. The Mouse House did claim that most of the arrests did not involve staffers from its ship.
“We have a zero-tolerance policy for this type of behavior and fully cooperated with law enforcement,” a Disney spokesperson told the New York Post. “While the majority of these individuals were not from our cruise line, those who were are no longer with the company.”
The Disney cruise had just returned from a five-day voyage that included stops at Catalina Island and Ensenada in Baja California, Mexico.
Video footage hit the internet this week showing immigration enforcement officers nabbing Disney employees right at the San Diego International Airport after the Disney Magic docked. This naturally sent the usual anti-ICE crowd into full meltdown mode.
One vacationer, Dharmi Mehta, caught video of a man she said was her server getting detained.“He was full in uniform, which was in a blazer, tie. Some of the other employees were still in their chef’s uniforms with their name tags on it,” Mehta said during a press conference on Tuesday.
Before anyone knew what the arrests were actually about, the usual immigration rights groups were already screaming bloody murder. Even after the child exploitation details came out, plenty of advocates still insisted these clowns deserved full U.S. criminal prosecutions instead of a quick ride out of the country. Priorities, folks.
The Port of San Diego made it clear their local cops stayed far away from the whole thing.“The Port of San Diego Harbor Police Department did not have any involvement in the reported enforcement actions on April 23rd or April 25th at the B Street Cruise Terminal,” a spokesperson for the port told NBC San Diego, emphasizing that Harbor Police does not enforce federal immigration law.
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