BI deploys additional immigration officers at NAIA

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has deployed 99 new immigration officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in connection with the agency’s objective to increase its manpower at the country’s main gateway.

BI port operations division chief Carlos Capulong said on Friday the new employees started reporting for work in the three terminals of the NAIA last week.

These immigration inspectors will be rotated on their shift assignments every week “so they can experience the challenges and grasp the enormity of their roles and responsibilities as border control officers of our country,” he added.

“We believe that as more and more Filipinos are vaccinated, this pandemic will soon be a thing of the past and there will be an influx of international travelers into our country.  Thus, this early we are already preparing and bracing for this eventuality,” Capulong said.

Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente reminded the new employees that aside from preventing the entry of undesirable aliens, they, too, are tasked with seeing to it that poor Filipinos are not victimized by human traffickers who will recruit and attempt to send them abroad.

The new recruits had completed their three-month training on immigration laws, rules and procedures prior to deployment.

Another batch of immigration officers is expected to graduate before the year ends, Morente said.—AOL, GMA News