Illegal Immigration Is Battering Maine’s Cruise Ship Industry: Senator

Border Patrol agents have been reassigned to the southern border. Without them, passengers from cruise ships originating from a foreign port can’t disembark.

A humpback whale swims near a cruise ship in Disko Bay in Ilulissat, Greenland, on Aug. 4, 2019. Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Maine’s cruise ship industry is feeling the impact of illegal immigration.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has indicated it can no longer provide agents to meet international cruises this summer scheduled to dock in Eastport, Maine, according to Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the only Republican representing any of the six New England states in Congress.