MANILA, Philippines - Justice Secretary Leila de Lima has ordered 16 immigration officers to explain in three days why they should not be held administratively liable for the processing and departure of undocumented overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Syria.

The 16 officers of the Bureau of Immigration, an attached agency of the Department of Justice, were ordered to explain in writing why the DOJ should not give them administrative sanctions based on their respective malfeasance and non-feasance in the line of their duty as reflected in the travel and departure records of repatriated OFWs from Syria.

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