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Immigration officials nab 36 Japanese tagged in telecoms scam

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 15 12:41 PM

MANILA - The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Wednesday arrested 36 Japanese nationals, including 2 wanted criminals, for their alleged involvement in a telecommunications scam. Read more »

Higit 300 Tsino na sangkot sa 'telecom fraud' ipina-deport

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 14 03:27 PM

Ayon sa Bureau of Immigration, kanselado na ang pasaporte ng mga ito kaya pawang undocumented aliens na sila. Read more »

Immigration bureau to deport 300 illegal foreign workers to China

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 14 03:14 AM

The bureau said 21 minors who were arrested during the operation will also be deported. Read more »

Supreme Court leans toward Trump on ending 'Dreamers' immigrant program

Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung, Reuters
Updated as of Nov 13 07:18 AM

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's conservative majority signaled support on Tuesday for President Donald Trump's bid to kill a program that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants - dubbed "Dreamers" - who entered the United States illegally as children, even as liberal justices complained that the move would destroy lives. Read more »

US judge rules suspicionless searches of travelers' digital devices unconstitutional

Nate Raymond, Reuters
Posted at Nov 13 05:06 AM

BOSTON - A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that US border agents need "reasonable suspicion" but not a warrant to search travelers’ smartphones and laptops at airports and other US ports of entry, a practice that has been growing in recent years.   Read more »

US Supreme Court to hear Trump bid to end safeguards for immigrant 'Dreamers'

Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung, Reuters
Posted at Nov 12 03:11 PM

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Tuesday to hear arguments over the legality of President Donald Trump's effort to rescind a program that protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants - dubbed "Dreamers" - who entered the United States illegally as children, part of his tough immigration policies. Read more »

Vietnam to repatriate 39 nationals found dead in UK truck

Joe Jackson and Jenny Vaughan, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 08 04:52 AM

LONDON, United Kingdom—Vietnam said Thursday it was working to repatriate 39 bodies now identified as Vietnamese nationals found in a truck near London last month, in a case that exposed the deadly risks of illegal migration to Europe. Read more »

As contingents arrive for SEA Games, immigration says ‘heightened alert’ up

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 07 03:12 AM

An immigration port operations chief said his office is expecting as many as 20,000 delegates to arrive for the Games. Read more »

Chinese passports na may 9-dash line, tatatakan muli ng Pilipinas

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 07 12:57 AM

Tatatakan na muli ng Bureau of Immigration ang pasaporte ng mga taga-China na pupunta sa Pilipinas. Read more »

10 detainees go on hunger strike at Japanese immigration center

Kyodo News
Posted at Nov 06 11:03 PM

Around 10 foreigners detained at an immigration facility in Osaka have staged a hunger strike to protest their protracted detention, their supporters said Wednesday.   Read more »

PH begins stamping Chinese passports despite ‘propaganda’ sea map

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 06 12:12 PM

The Philippine immigration bureau announced Wednesday it would resume stamping passports of visiting Chinese nationals, following Manila’s reversal of a 7-year-old policy protesting Beijing’s expansive maritime claim. Read more »

Japanese legal firm refuses to return passport to Filipino woman

Kyodo News
Posted at Nov 04 09:45 PM

A legal service firm in Yokohama, Japan is refusing to give a passport back to a Filipino woman under an employment contract they signed earlier this year, preventing her from seeking a new job or returning home, she said Monday. Read more »

US court blocks another Trump immigration initiative

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 04 07:29 AM

US President Donald Trump has suffered a new legal setback after a federal judge temporarily blocked a measure that would have required immigrants to prove they had health insurance or could afford medical care.   Read more »

Quebec to put immigrants seeking residency through 'values' test

Moira Warburton, Reuters
Posted at Oct 31 12:04 PM

Quebec will require immigrants seeking permanent residency in the Canadian province to pass a "values" test to ensure they understand its new secularism law, the provincial government said on Wednesday. Read more »

US proposes collecting DNA samples from detained immigrants

Daniel Trotta, Reuters
Posted at Oct 22 07:06 AM

The Trump administration on Monday proposed taking DNA samples from immigrants detained by U.S. authorities, raising privacy concerns especially for asylum-seekers and minor offenders whose genetic information would go into an FBI database. Read more »

British family says detained in US for making wrong turn

Jocelyne Zablit, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 17 07:57 AM

MALING LIKO? US authorities are disputing the account of two British couples who claim they were held in dire conditions with their three young children for two weeks after mistakenly straying into the US from Canada. Read more »

'Foreign criminals additional headache for cops' - Villanueva

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 08 05:42 PM

MANILA - Sen. Joel Villanueva on Tuesday urged the government to address the "unabated influx" of illegal foreign workers in the country, saying the presence of criminal elements within their ranks was an additional headache for the police. Read more »

PH seeks deportation, not extradition of 'drug queen': DOJ

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 08 10:55 AM

MANILA - Bringing back Manila's alleged "drug queen" would depend on how fast US authorities will locate Guia Gomez Castro, a justice department official said Tuesday. Read more »

67 new immigration officers deployed to augment manpower at airports

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 03 11:29 AM

MANILA – A total of 67 newly-graduated immigration officers will be deployed to the country’s international airports to augment manpower for the upcoming Southeast Asian Games and the start of the holiday rush. Read more »

US to collect DNA of all undocumented migrants

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 03 05:25 AM

The US government plans to collect the DNA of all migrants detained after entering the country illegally, officials said Wednesday. Read more »