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THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) arrested a total of 13 Vietnamese nationals found to be running illegal health spas and clinics in Makati,<\/strong> <\/strong>Para\u00f1aque, and Pasay.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “The audacity of these illegal aliens to be running their illegal business in the middle of the Metro,\u201d said BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe received intelligence information about their presence and activities, hence I immediately ordered their arrest,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The 13 Vietnamese men were arrested in four separate clinics in Makati, Para<\/strong>\u00f1<\/strong>aque, and Pasay.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n They were unable to present documentation during the arrest, hence making them undocumented aliens.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The BI filed cases against the 13 for working without a proper permit or visa in violation of the Philippine Immigration Act of 1940 and for being undocumented aliens.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n One of the subjects was found to have a working visa, but was caught working in a company other than the company that petitioned his visa, hence violating the conditions of his stay.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThese illegal aliens are operating their business in broad daylight, perhaps thinking that they will not be caught,\u201d said Tansingco.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe urge local government units, barangays, and community members to report illegal aliens in your areas so we can immediately arrest and deport them,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The 13 Vietnamese nationals will remain in the BI facility in Bicutan, Taguig until the resolution of the deportation cases filed against them.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) arrested a total of 13 Vietnamese nationals found to be running illegal health spas and clinics in Makati, Parañaque, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4276,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions\/4276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}