668 Foreigners Barred From Entering Rp In First Half Of

[Steve]

SOURCE: http://immigration.gov.ph//index.php?optio...9&Itemid=78JULY 28, 2009Immigration authorities remained vigilant in their job as gatekeepers as the Bureau of Immigration (BI) reported today that 668 illegal aliens were barred from entering the country during the first semester.

[Bruce]

SOURCE: http://immigration.gov.ph//index.php?optio...9&Itemid=78JULY 28, 2009Immigration authorities remained vigilant in their job as gatekeepers as the Bureau of Immigration (BI) reported today that 668 illegal aliens were barred from entering the country during the first semester."We cannot afford to relax our guard especially in these times when terrorists, criminals and human traffickers roam the world to strike fear and victimize the citizens of many countries and societies," BI Commissioner Nonoy Libanan declared.Libanan said he is pleased that the bureau's immigration officers are doing a good job of turning away undesirable aliens at the ports of entry."Undoubtedly, the vigilance of our immigration officers helps keep our country safe because they have turned back foreigners whose presence here could have posed a potential threat to our security and caused burden to our society," the immigration chief said.In his report to Libanan, BI Immigration Regulation Division (IRD) chief Gary Mendoza said the bulk of the excluded aliens were intercepted at the Ninoy Aquino International Airports (NAIA) while the rest were barred in other ports such as those in Cebu, Clark, and Davao.As standard operating procedure, aliens barred at the airports are immediately placed in the BI blacklist to prevent them from returning to the country.Mendoza said most of the excluded aliens had spurious travel documents, adding that a many of them are believed to be victims of human trafficking syndicates."These syndicates have been using the Philippines as a transit point for trafficking their victims to other foreign destinations such as the US, Canada and Europe," Mendoza said. BI spokesman Floro Balato Jr. said illegal aliens are now having difficulty slipping at the NAIA due to the rigorous training that immigration officers have been undergoing to bolster their capability in profiling passengers and detecting fraudulent travel documents.Balato added that a special team of immigration officers is also on hand to be on the lookout for suspicious looking passengers so they could be subjected to secondary inspection and their travel documents double-checked.A breakdown of the aliens excluded from January to July showed that 76 Koreans topped the list, followed by 68 Chinese, 39 Japanese, 28 Indians, 27 Americans, 21 Taiwanese, 11 Singaporeans, nine Malaysians, nine Britons, and eight Australians. (BI News)

But not ONE Canadian! They are always so polite and nice (Quebec & Montreal not included)