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A migrant workers’ group criticized the Aquino administration’s labo- export policy in a state of “Catch-22” or a big dilemma as gleaned in its easing of hiring rules for overseas workers set forth by the Migrant Workers Act.
“This only implies that the government remains a failure when it comes to creating local jobs with decent pay and benefits. The government’s labor-export program is not reliable. In fact, it is a shrinking job generation measure; it is a mere Band-Aid solution to our country’s economic woes,” said John Leonard Monterona, Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator.
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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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IN an effort to prevent undesirable aliens and human trafficking victims from taking advantage of the long Holy Week break to slip in or out of the country, Bureau of Immigration (BI) personnel in the different ports of entry were directed to be on heightened alert, even as they are prohibited from going on leave during the said period.
The directive is contained in a memorandum order issued by BI Commissioner Ricardo David, Jr., who told immigration officers and intelligence agents stationed in the ports to be extra vigilant and closely monitor all arriving and departing international travelers, saying that the long holiday might be exploited by foreign terrorists, drug mules and other undesirable aliens to sneak into or out of the country.