Royal Caribbean More Crew Deported – Royal Caribbean Cases Surface After Deportation of 18 Carnival Sunshine Crew
While most of the attention has been on the 18 Carnival Sunshine crew members recently deported by CBP from Norfolk, it looks like this wasn’t an isolated case.
We’ve now learned that 19 Royal Caribbean crew members were also deported back in April 2025 and under very similar and troubling circumstances.
One of them shared his experience:
I am a former crew member who worked for Royal Caribbean International. I am writing this with a heavy heart. I loved my job and gave it everything I had until the morning of April 6, 2025, at the port of Galveston, Texas.
At around 7 or 8 in the morning, after only a few hours of sleep, I was abruptly woken by loud knocks at my cabin door. When I opened it, there were six individuals — two ship...
