The Oosterdam, which had no confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday, left the Port of Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon and is now off the coast of Ensenada, Mexico.
Melinda Mann is one of more than 750 crew members – nine of whom are American citizens – stuck on board Holland America's MS Oosterdam after it disembarked its last passengers in March amid theMann, a 25-year-old youth program manager from Georgia, boarded in late February and worked until her contract ended on April 18. But due to the coronavirus pandemic and ensuing, she's had to remain on board, only venturing from her room for meals.
Mann said that on Tuesday, the Americans received a visit from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents, who said they might still be able to disembark. But ultimately, the CDC didn't allow it. "He called me a 'silly little girl' among other things before he realized I was recording," she said."I told him and the security guards that I am an American citizen and that the ship cannot lawfully detain me. They are not a government agency, nor do they have political power." Mann said the security guard told his officers to stop her physically if she tried to"make a run for it.
"On the ship, I don't get a lawyer," she added. "I don't get any options. I have to just do what they say." "My intention was never to get into a fight with ship security. We're all ultimately on the same side: getting crew home," she said."They just don't want to get arrested or in trouble for letting me go right then and there."
Reed noted,"In the last two weeks, other cruise lines have provided signed attestations to disembark crew members. And CDC has approved those disembarkations. Neither Holland America nor Carnival provided the attestation despite requests from CDC."
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