THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) has barred six undesirable foreigners, one of them a suspected terrorist, from entering the country.
BI officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) intercepted a Belgian man who is on the Interpol list of suspected foreign terrorists, according to Immigration chief Norman Tansingco.
He said the Belgian was turned back after arriving via an Etihad flight from Abu Dhabi. His companion, a 27-year-old Belgian woman, was also sent back with him.
The suspected terrorist’s name was withheld on the request of Interpol, saying the Belgian is subject of a diffusion notice issued by the Interpol for the alleged offense of involvement in terrorism-related crime.
The Belgian was excluded pursuant to Sec. 29 of the Philippine Immigration act which forbids the entry of “any alien who believes in, advises, advocates, ore teaches the overthrow by force and violence of constituted law authority.”
Meanwhile, the four other foreigners, all convicted American sex offenders were not allowed to enter the Philippines, for fear of abusing and victimizing Filipino women.
“We have been turning them away one after the other, yet they keep on coming here,” Tansingco said.
“But we will not relent because it is our duty in the BI to prevent the Philippines from being a hub of sex tourism,” he assured. Tansingco identified the four American sex offenders as Herbert Nelson Price, 63; Thomas Dewey Wise, 68; Keith Knight Bonzon, 65; and John Kenneth Wilsher, 60.
