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The strangest things happen at the airport. This happened last week, but it’s so “weird” (for lack of a better word) that we had to write about this.
“Bureau of Immigration (BI) officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) prevented a woman with two babies from entering the country and immediately deported her for using fake passports,” reports Jun Ramirez in Tempo.
The report noted that the 36-year-old woman, who went by the name Alwakil Linda, arrived last Jan 21 at the NAIA via AirAsia flight flight Z2941 from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The thing was, Linda attempted to enter the country using fake Spanish passports. She said that the two babies were her children.
A press release from the BI revealed: “Travel Control and Enforcement Unit member Mohammad Nur Badron noticed that the woman’s passports did not contain the security features common in Spanish passports. Forensic investigations revealed that the travel documents she presented were counterfeit. The passports likewise contained several fake stamps.”
The press release went on to say that the woman and the two babies “were immediately barred from entering the country and were placed in the bureau’s blacklist for violating the Philippine Immigration Act of 1940.”
Both the report and the BI press release didn’t contain additional details. So here are our questions: How did she get past the airport authorities in Malaysia? Didn’t the AirAsia people suspect anything when they saw the passports she presented? What if those babies weren’t her kids? Can you really put babies on the BI blacklist?
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