Senator Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito on Tuesday, September 27 said he supports the summary deportation of around 2,000 illegal and overstaying workers employed by different Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGO) across the country.
Senator Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito on Tuesday, September 27 said he supports the summary deportation of around 2,000 illegal and overstaying workers employed by different Philippine offshore gaming operators across the country.
“In fact, there might be some foreign national syndicates who are using the POGO business avenue to enter the country and conduct their criminal activities here. Not just Chinese criminal syndicates, but also Cambodian and Vietnamese criminal syndicates,” Ejercito said in a statement. Earlier, the Department of Justice announced it is planning to deport thousands of POGO workers by mid-October prompted by the recent spate of kidnappings and other criminal activities linked to POGOs .
Ejercito had filed Senate Resolution No. 194, which sought to direct the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs to conduct a probe on these “alarming” cases of kidnapping, abduction, and disappearances, specially those against women, POGO workers, and Filipino-Chinese individuals.