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TWO Filipinas were rescued by immigration officers assigned at the Davao International Airport (DIA) last February 21 after almost being trafficked to work abroad.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n DIA immigration officers reported the interception of the duo, who are in their late 20s and early 30s, after they attempted to depart on board a Scoot airlines flight for Thailand.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Both presented themselves individually at the immigration counters and initially claimed to be traveling alone for a holiday to Thailand.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n However, a careful scrutiny of their documentation revealed that they were planning to transit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n After undergoing secondary inspection, both women admitted that they were recruited to work as a dancer and as a massage therapist.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Norman Tansingco said that the officers suspected that the victims were going to be pushed into prostitution upon arrival abroad.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThis modus is still prevalent, wherein women are made to agree to work illegally as entertainers, but end up in prostitution because their employers have full control over them once they are abroad,\u201d the BI chief said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cKahit alam kong delikado ito, nag risk ako,\u201d recounted one of the victims.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tansingco said that the risk is not worth it. \u201cAspiring workers should also protect themselves from these syndicates preying on their desire to work abroad,\u201d said Tansingco.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He reminded would-be overseas workers to only seek employment abroad via legal channels through the Department of Migrant Workers.<\/strong>The two were endorsed to the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) DIA for assistance in filing cases against their recruiters<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TWO Filipinas were rescued by immigration officers assigned at the Davao International Airport (DIA) last February 21 after almost being trafficked to work abroad. DIA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4073,"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\/4072"}],"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=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions\/4074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}