FEISTY MAYOR Beng Climaco has ordered authorities to crack down on illegal recruiters using the southern port city of Zamboanga for their nefarious activities following the rescue of dozens of women on their way to work illegally abroad.
“We must not allow these illegal recruiters or syndicates to use Zamboanga for their wicked and criminal activities. We must stop them,” Climaco said at the same time praising authorities for the rescue of 56 women recently.
Immigration agents the women at the Port of Zamboanga while on their way to Sandakan City in the Malaysian state of Sabah. Many of them claimed they were recruited from various places in the country to work in Kuwait, Dubai, Lebanon, Bahrain and Qatar.
Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said: “The workers were trying to use Malaysia as a jump-off point to other Middle Eastern countries, where they received job offers to work in the service industry. Interviews with those intercepted revealed that they came from different parts of the country, and were recruited by agencies that some met through Facebook.”
Morente said authorities were tracking down the recruiters of these people.
“These illegal syndicates are seemingly attempting to look for other exit points to be able to evade strict immigration inspection. What they have not realized is that we have spread out our personnel, and are maintaining the same level of screening in all ports in the country, to ensure that our kababayan will not be victimized by these unscrupulous individuals,” he said.
He said since early this month, immigration authorities have intercepted 54 other women in Zamboanga trying to illegally cross Malaysia to work in Qatar and Dubai as caregivers and domestic helpers.
All those being held by the Bureau of Immigration were handed over to the Inter-Agency Council against Trafficking for further investigation, according to Morente. (Zamboanga Post)
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“We must not allow these illegal recruiters or syndicates to use Zamboanga for their wicked and criminal activities. We must stop them,” Climaco said at the same time praising authorities for the rescue of 56 women recently.
Immigration agents the women at the Port of Zamboanga while on their way to Sandakan City in the Malaysian state of Sabah. Many of them claimed they were recruited from various places in the country to work in Kuwait, Dubai, Lebanon, Bahrain and Qatar.
Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said: “The workers were trying to use Malaysia as a jump-off point to other Middle Eastern countries, where they received job offers to work in the service industry. Interviews with those intercepted revealed that they came from different parts of the country, and were recruited by agencies that some met through Facebook.”
Morente said authorities were tracking down the recruiters of these people.
“These illegal syndicates are seemingly attempting to look for other exit points to be able to evade strict immigration inspection. What they have not realized is that we have spread out our personnel, and are maintaining the same level of screening in all ports in the country, to ensure that our kababayan will not be victimized by these unscrupulous individuals,” he said.
He said since early this month, immigration authorities have intercepted 54 other women in Zamboanga trying to illegally cross Malaysia to work in Qatar and Dubai as caregivers and domestic helpers.
All those being held by the Bureau of Immigration were handed over to the Inter-Agency Council against Trafficking for further investigation, according to Morente. (Zamboanga Post)
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