Twenty three Filipinas bound for the Middle East were held by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) and were prohibited from exiting the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
In a Philippine Star report, Dong Castillo, head of Immigration’s Travel Control and Enforcement Unit said the women were barred from leaving the country because they had two visas. They had visas for Dubai and visas for either Lebanon or Jordan.
Castillo said that during questioning the women admitted that they were going to Dubai but were really going to work in Jordan and Lebanon as domestic helpers. NAIA officials turned over the women to the Inter-Agency Committee Against Trafficking.
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