The recruiters paid as much as P100,000 to those immigration agents for every Filipino traveler they allowed to fly out of Clark “without questions,” Hontiveros said. | MRamosINQ /PDI
“They made us work overtime for 16 hours straight. We could not sleep. They gave us food, but we could not eat it,” Miles said in a video recording which the office of Sen. Risa Hontiveros provided to the media on Wednesday.
They spent a night at a building next to the station, sleeping on the floor as there were no beds, before they were able to fly back home last Monday with the help of people whom Hontiveros declined to name. ‘Contacts’ at Clark The recruiters paid as much as P100,000 to those immigration agents for every Filipino traveler they allowed to fly out of Clark “without questions,” Hontiveros said.
“But it seems there are still groups or individuals within the agency who will stop at nothing to make an easy buck,” Hontiveros said.
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