00:00Local governments will now help to stop foreign POGO workers from leaving the Philippines.
00:09Even investigations of Filipinos who claimed to have a fake birth certificate will be conducted by various agencies.
00:17Salima Refran is on the scene.
00:21Following the POGO deadlock, more than 11,000 foreign POGO workers who did not leave the Philippines
00:28are considered illegal aliens and are now subject to manhunt operations by the government.
00:34We gave them all the possibility to be legalized.
00:39We allowed them to process their papers, leave the country voluntarily.
00:45They had six months to do so and there's no more excuse really.
00:50After talking to the Bureau of Immigration, they just gave up and did not go through the process of arresting.
00:56This is also to process their deportation.
00:59PNP, Interior Department and local governments will also help in the manhunt.
01:04There is also an executive order to enter and inspect business and rental spaces in their respective localities.
01:11Even residential areas can enter.
01:14They have the power to go in.
01:16They are responsible for checking all the buildings, all the occupancy permits,
01:21all the electrical permits, all the fire safety permits.
01:25Even residential areas are also considered part of the powers of the local government unit to investigate.
01:31Local officials are also concerned.
01:35No one can escape.
01:37No tolerance, zero tolerance.
01:39No tolerance.
01:40As long as you made a mistake, we will forgive you.
01:43Meanwhile, the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission of Paok
01:46supported the assumption that the Philippine Birth Certificates that were obtained by foreigners
01:51will not be used for court proceedings.
01:54When it comes to the Philippines, they were able to assume a new name.
01:58Then it was registered in their IDs, in their driver's license.
02:03Then we will know that they were wanted in their country of origin.
02:08Investigations are also underway by various agencies,
02:11such as the LTO and BIR, against the Peking Filipinos.
02:15The Office of the Solicitor General said that the government will have to pay a fine of P75 million
02:22for the cancellation of 1,500 fraudulently acquired birth certificates of foreigners.
02:29If the law allows the cancellation of birth certificates to be administrative,
02:34the government will have to pay half of the fine.
02:37The government officials who were part of this modus will also be held accountable.
02:42We will see the documents if there is implicit knowledge and participation of local government units,
02:50and then we will go after them.
02:52For GMA Integrated News, I'm Nima Lafran,
02:55for 24 Hours.
03:07For GMA Integrated News, I'm Nima Lafran,
03:08for 24 Hours.
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