Maryland advocacy groups say Filipino seafarers are being targeted, including at the Port of Baltimore.

Those deportations are happening as the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement efforts.

Adrian Reantaso with Malaya Movement Baltimore, one of the advocacy groups speaking out about this, said this is happening at ports in other states, including Virginia and Florida.

Reantaso said his group has been hearing concerns from Filipino cruise ship workers and other seafarers for weeks, especially after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) removed four Filipino workers from a Carnival cruise ship docked at the Port of Baltimore in September.

"We hear firsthand accounts of them being scared for their lives. They're packing their stuff up in anticipation [of CBP coming to

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