BID Commissioner assures enhanced bureau function
in the province
By Noriam Gabo-Orlido
The Bureau of Immigration and Deportation in the
province will have additional personnel for better
service and monitoring of foreigners in the province,
BID Commissioner Andrea Domingo said Thursday.
Commissioner Domingo made the statement following
her ocular inspection and meeting with officials
in the province Wednesday.
Speaking before the media in a press conference,
Domingo declared the operation of an extension office
in Brooke’s Point and Balabac municipality
this week. She said that they are going to add additional
personnel to the province, enhanced their intelligence
operations to monitor the entrance and exit of foreigners
in the province using the country’s backdoor.
Domingo’s arrival in the province was prompted
by the report that Palawan, notably the municipality
of Balabac and Brooke’s Point, are used as
entry point of undocumented aliens and even smuggled
goods. Domingo then made the visit to see what improvements
should be introduced.
She said that passport processing will be available
in the extensions offices.
Diomingo also said that the government of the People’s
Republic of China has lost face to negotiate for
the release of their citizens arrested in Tubattaha
National Marine Park.
“Wala nang mukha na ihaharap ang Chinese government
to negotiate for their citizen’s relase. They
have no moral leverage or human cause para humingi
ng leniency,” she said.
She said that there is a strong evidence of criminal
intent from the Chinese in their intrusion in Tubbattaha,
especially with the arrest of formerly apprehended
Chinese individuals. The BID is pressing deportation
charges against the apprehended individuals.
She enumerated some of these points citing the arrest
of eight individuals previously arrested for the
same reason, their entry into the very waters of
the country and their intrusion into a protected
area.
She also said to have ordered the banning of issuing
any clearance for the five fishing ship of the Chinese
until the case had been resolved.
She also expressed their plan to increase the administrative
fines of the arrested fishermen especially those
twice arrested to include the cost of destruction
they brought in to the intruded area.
Fines for intruders usually costs P50, 000. ^
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