We have featured stories in the past where suspicions of sexual immorality are manipulated as excuses to apprehend immigrants. In one of the latest examples of this phenomenon, Customs and Border Patrol agents used trumped-up charges of possessing illegal images of minors to coerce 18 Filipino workers on a Carnival cruise ship, who had valid visas, into signing statements that allowed for their removal. In this case there appears to be little evidence to support the charges beyond ethnic profiling based on the Philippines’ reputation as a mecca for sex tourism and child pornography.
Filipino Cruise Workers Harassed with False Pornography Charges
