Manila, Oct. 22 -- Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Jaime Morente has alerted personnel manning the different airports to be extra vigilant against passengers disguised as tourists who were illegally recruited to work overseas.
This, following the rescue of 17 females suspected to be human trafficking victims, who were illegally hired to work as household service workers in the Middle East, at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) last week.
According to BI Port Operations Division Chief Grifton Medina, the passengers were intercepted on October 16 and 17 before they could board their flights to Hong Kong and Macau en route to their final destinations in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
"It appears that these victims wer...