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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to have rejected the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines’ call for Australian nun Patricia Fox to be allowed to stay in the country. “Karaming madre diyan. May mga madre pa sa bukid,” Duterte said on Wednesday, May 2, after he was reported to have met with lawyers from his alma mater San Beda College. The lawyers were allegedly asked by the CBCP to appeal the Bureau of Immigration’s […]
(Eagle News)—-President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, April 28, said the basis for the Bureau of Immigration’s directive for Australian nun Patricia Fox to leave the country was an order made by former Senator Leila de Lima herself. “Yung may gawa ng rules niyan, kapag sumali ka doon sa protesta, mga political rallies, ide-deport ka, kaninong order ‘yan? Hindi ko man tinanggal. Ang aking kaibigan na sa loob ng presuhan, si de Lima,” Duterte said in […]
By Jerold Tagbo Eagle News Service Several senators expressed different opinions about the Bureau of Immigration’s deportation order against Australian nun Patricia Fox. “The general rule is, if you are a foreigner, do not interfere in the domestic politics of the country that you are in…So, including Filipinos who are abroad, ‘wag rin tayong makialam sa mga kilos protesta sa kanilang bansa, kasi I am sure, kahit hindi ko pa nabasa ‘yung batas ng bansang […]
(Eagle News) — The camp of Australian nun Patricia Fox said it would question the Bureau of Immigration’s decision to forfeit her missionary visa, and order for her to leave. In a television interview, Jobert Pahilga, Fox’s counsel, said they would first file a motion for reconsideration with the BI. If the BI denies their motion, he said they would elevate the issue to the Court of Appeals, and then to the Supreme Court if […]
(Eagle News) — Senate President Koko Pimentel on Tuesday, April 17, expressed support for the government’s decision to deport European Union socialist party official Giacomo Filibeck, saying foreigners in general were not exempt from the laws of the country. “There is a law here in the Philippines (and this is also generally the rule in many countries) that foreigners are not allowed to meddle in our internal politics/political matters…These foreigners who come here should not […]
(Eagle News) – The plunder case filed against former immigration deputy commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles, and retired police officer Wenceslao “Wally” Sombero Jr. was re-raffled to the Sandiganbayan Sixth Division on Friday, April 6. This was after the Sandiganbayan en banc approved on Thursday the inhibition from the case of Fourth Division chairperson Associate Justice Alex Quiroz. Quiroz made the move after admitting one of the accused was an “acquaintance.” The Sixth Division […]
(Eagle News) — The Office of the Ombudsman has indicted former immigration deputy commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles after they allegedly attempted to extort P50 million from businessman Jack Lam last year. Apart from Argosino and Robles, Wally Sombero faces one count for violation of Section 3(e) of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, direct bribery and Presidential Decree No. 46. PD No. 46 sanctions government officials who receive gifts from private individuals. Argosino and […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration has ordered the deployment of over 50 immigration officers to several airports in time for the long holiday. Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said the deployment of the 58 officers to various field offices across the country aims to “minimize, if not eradicate, long queues of passengers” in immigration counters. Of the 58, he said 38 were immigration officers assigned to the BI main office and other satellite offices in Metro […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration on Monday announced the arrest of a South Korean allegedly behind a multi-million dollar “telephone fraud scheme” in his country. In a statement, BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said Jung Hyojin, 35, was nabbed by BI Fugitive Search Unit agents in Malate, Manila on Thursday, February 22. According to BI FSU chief Bobby Raquepo, Jung, who is the subject of an Interpol red notice, was the leader of a […]
(Eagle News) — One of South Korea’s most wanted fugitives has been arrested in the Philippines, the Bureau of Immigration said on Thursday. BI Fugitive Search Unit Chief Bobby Raquepo said in a statement that Chun Tae Joon, 53, was nabbed by authorities along Kalayaan Avenue in Diliman, Quezon City on Tuesday, following a tip from an informant. Chun, who was ordered arrested in 2005 over a $100-million construction investment scam that victimized 10,000 people, had been […]
(Eagle News) — Three employees of the Department of Justice have been sacked after they were found to have been involved in the anomalous processing of visas at the Bureau of Immigration. The BI also issued a lookout order against Cyrus V. Morata, Abvic Ryan Maghirang and Shigred A. Ericbuagas, who have since confessed, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said. “Upon being informed of the discovery of these anomalies, I immediately tasked the NBI to investigate […]
Three others ordered indicted over P50-million extort plot (Eagle News) — The Ombudsman has ordered the filing of a plunder complaint against former Immigration commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles over what the anti-graft body said was their extortion of P50 million from Chinese businessman Jack Lam in 2016. This was despite the Department of Justice’s earlier disclosure that the P50 million, which was supposedly in exchange for the release of Lam’s 1316 workers who […]
