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BUREAU of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado hailed the recent arrest of three individuals involved in falsifying departure stamps.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Viado stressed that safeguarding the country\u2019s borders is vital to national security and aligns with President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.\u2019s vision of secure border management.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe will not allow criminal syndicates to undermine our immigration system and put people at risk,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The trio, arrested last February 14 by members of the Manila International Airport Authority Airport Police Department (MIAA-APD), were subject of entrapment operations after victimizing Filipino trafficking victims.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The syndicate allegedly charged as much as P120,000 to its victims by impressing a fake immigration departure stamp to facilitate their illegal departure from the country, allowing them to work as tourists abroad.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Verification by the BI\u2019s forensic documents laboratory confirmed that the stamps used for two female victims on January 1 and 21 were indeed counterfeit.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Viado expressed gratitude to the MIAA-APD for their swift action.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThis successful operation is a testament to the importance of collaboration in law enforcement. We will continue to pursue those who exploit our citizens and undermine immigration procedures,\u201d Viado said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BUREAU of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado hailed the recent arrest of three individuals involved in falsifying departure stamps. Viado stressed that safeguarding the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11986,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions\/11986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}