Airport Incident Being Investigated: Caught on Video

[Monseratto]

The woman was being "escorted" back to the airport of origin for working without a permit as a teacher...


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WATCH: Immigration agent hits Chinese woman | ABS-CBN News

MANILA - The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) is investigating an immigration agent who was caught on video hitting a female Chinese national at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 last Sunday.

MIAA officer-in-charge Vicente Guerzon, Jr. directed NAIA 3 manager Octavio Lina to investigate the incident wherein a man in civilian clothes was seen on a cellphone video manhandling a female Chinese national. Two uniformed security personnel, reportedly from Cebu Pacific, were also captured in the video.

In an interview with ABS-CBN News, Lina said the man in civilian clothes exchanging blows with the female Chinese passenger is Immigration intelligence agent Benjie Magallon.

The passenger was identified as Jiang Huixing, a Cebu Pacific passenger who had just arrived from Beijing.

Lina said Jiang was the subject of an "airport to airport proceeding'' for violating an immigration policy prohibiting foreigners from illegally working in the country.

Jiang 's travel records indicate that she is a frequent traveler to the Philippines.

Authorities said Jiang would use up all the time she is allowed to stay in the Philippines, return to China and then go back to Manila to resume her work as a teacher in an exclusive Chinese school.

Lina said immigration officials ordered Jiang's deportation but the latter resisted uniformed personnel from Cebu Pacific.

The airline personnel then asked Magallon to help.

Lina said MIAA has coordinated with Cebu Pacific to identify the two uniformed security guards. MIAA also asked the Bureau of Immigration to require their agents to submit incident reports.

"The airport authority is seriously investigating this incident to determine what caused the incident," Lina said. – By Raoul Esperas

[Manilablock]

Dapat sa 3 un (immigration at 2 guard) i-terminate.

pag naka duty ka kailangan maximum tolerance, kung nagwawala ung suspect i-restrain mo, at hindi para upakan.

hindi lahat ng witness ay inosente, meron din accessory to the crime dahil pinayagan ng guard na umabuso ung immigration officer.

[Altis6453]

It's hard to trust Immigration Officers because they engage in profiling, even for Pinoys who are 1st time travelers. This woman was a frequent traveler to the PH. Kung meron violation ng working without a permit, eh di kasuhan. The situation got out of control, no thanks to airport officers who couldn't restrain one traveler. Sheesh.

[K.I.L.L.]

This will only help deteriorate our relationship with China. I agree that those immigration agents are highly abusive.

[Monseratto]

Dapat babae din na immigration officer ang na assign sa mainlander na iyan...

[macsd]

One dumb immigration intelligence officer, good thing intelligent was not the term used. Combined with 2 security guards who got afraid of the officer. Everything equate with CHAOS.

Ang problema sa ating systema, the guard is always at the bottom. If guard see's a police or person of authority is already at the helm, they tend to get out of arms way kahit they are responsible on the area. Seem's like the orientation they get from their training & PNP is in such direction.

[Sweetlucious]

Saw a couple of incidents of unruly travellers in LAX and in Australia, hindi naman yun immigration officer ang nagrerestrain kundi yun mga airport security. Onli in d pilipins.

[111prez]

Hmmm, baka sinabi ng Immigration Officer na "amin ang Spratleys ha" at nagalit si Ms. China

[Monseratto]

This is what you get from contractual workers for sensitive jobs instead of sticking to career civil servants...


China condemns 'rough treatment' of female passenger after brawl at Manila airport | South China Morning Post

China condemns 'rough treatment' of female passenger after brawl at Manila airport
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 07 May, 2014, 11:54am
UPDATED : Wednesday, 07 May, 2014, 1:47pm
Patrick Boehler


The Chinese embassy in Manila has lashed out at what it called the "rough treatment" of a Chinese woman who was caught on camera at the capital's international airport brawling with an immigration official, who can be seen dragging her along the floor and slapping her.

In a video recorded on a cellphone at Ninoy Aquino International Airport’s Terminal 3, broadcast on local TV station ABS-CBN News, the pair can be seen engaged in a violent clash before the woman is finally shoved into a nearby room.

The incident could further fuel tensions between the two countries, already heightened due to an ongoing territorial dispute in the South China Sea and the presence of a large number of undocumented Chinese workers in the country.

The recording, which seems to have captured only a part of the confrontation, shows the official dragging the woman, who is sitting on the ground, for several metres before she stands up and repeatedly hits him with her handbag.

The official is then seen shoving her hard and slapping her several times, pushing her out of the picture while two uniformed security personnel watch from nearby.

It is unclear from the video how the altercation started.

The Chinese woman was later identified as Jiang Huixing. She had arrived from Beijing on a Cebu Pacific flight to resume her work as a teacher at a Chinese school, but was denied entry into the country for working there illegally, according to ABS-CBN News. She was awaiting deportation when she resisted airline staff, the report said.

The immigration agent, identified as Rashid Ramirez, then intervened, according to the Manila International Airport Authority.

An airport authority spokesman said the incident was being investigated. Ramirez has been suspended and is under investigation, Philippine immigration chief Siegfried Mison said this morning on DZMM radio of ABS-CBN network.

Mison said Ramirez was not a regular but a contractual employee acting as one of the “confidential agents” of the Bureau of Immigration, whose current contract ends this June 30, 2014. “He was already advised not to report for for work. I will leave it to the bureau's Board of Discipline to recommend correct sanctions,” he said.

Mison who is a lawyer and a retired army officer, said the agent should have handcuffed the woman instead of slapping her. But he also noted that slapping had been used in other airport terminals abroad as a way to cope with very unruly passengers. Mison noted that even the airline security had tried to help pacify the woman. “They could not find a way to calm her down because she could not accept the fact that we could not allow her to enter the country because she had immigration violations.”

It is still unclear when exactly the incident occurred. Philippine media said it happened on Sunday, but Chinese media said it occurred on Monday morning.

Jiang has since been sent back to Beijing, China’s Global Times reported citing airport staff. The newspaper said it had been able to reach Jiang on the phone on Tuesday, prior to her deportation.

Jiang told the newspaper that while she had worked in the Philippines in the past, her latest trip was for tourist purposes. She had to share a detention room with two men, one from China and one from Vietnam, who were also about to be deported, the Global Times reported.

Two consular officials visited Jiang on Monday evening before her deportation, the Chinese embassy said in a statement on Tuesday.

The officials lodged a protest with Philippine immigration officials and demanded a swift investigation and "justice for the Chinese citizen," it said.

The Chinese embassy in Manila could not be reached for immediate comment.

Chinese citizens working illegally in the Southeast Asian nation have in the past been a cause of friction between the two nations.

In September last year, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines said it was "alarmed" over the presence of thousands of Chinese workers in and around Manila. Raids in Manila shopping malls in December led to the arrest of 78 illegal Chinese workers.

[Ry_Tower]

Dapat babae din na immigration officer ang na assign sa mainlander na iyan...

Tsaka aside from being a female, sana meron din sila training for these kind of situation para hindi lumala.

[ans_lim168]

We don't know what were the prior events that led to the Chinese national to react in that way, granted she was already agitated they should try to restrain the subject first and not use force. It's a no-no to hit a person especially in this particular case where a male officer hit back a female.

[Monseratto]

Ngii...Chinese teacher taga Xavier Schoo dawl. DECS should investigate how a school allow illegal foreigners without the necessary permits to work there...

Chinese teacher with no working visa faces raps for airport fight
By Jocelyn R. Uy
Philippine Daily Inquirer
6:47 am | Thursday, May 8th, 2014

MANILA, Philippines—An unruly Chinese tourist who created a scene at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) on Monday is likely to face direct assault charges to be filed against her by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) for getting into a fight with one of its employees.

The bureau identified the tourist as Jiang Huixiang, 38, allegedly a Mandarin language teacher at Xavier School in San Juan City, who arrived in the country via a Cebu Pacific flight from Beijing three days ago with no work permit but admission and multiple extension entries on her passport.

Jiang was apparently the woman captured in a video circulating in social networking sites screaming and fighting off moves of Rashid Rangiris, an on-duty confidential agent of the BI, to push her into a room at the airport.

She immediately got the sympathy of netizens when Rangiris was shown hitting her during the commotion.

But a report from duty Immigration Supervisor Nelson Valdez said Jiang screamed at, hurled invectives, kicked immigration agents and bit the hand of a security guard at Naia Terminal 3 when she was denied entry upon her arrival on Monday.

According to the report, the immigration officer at the counter referred Jiang for secondary inspection when he noticed that she had multiple extensions in her travel document since 2012.

“After establishing that Jiang had violated immigration laws by not presenting a work permit, the officer calmly and respectfully informed her that she cannot be allowed into the country,” the bureau said. Jiang reportedly told authorities that she had been working as a language teacher on a tourist visa since 2012.

Quoting witnesses, the report said Jiang immediately shouted at the immigration official after she was denied entry. This prompted Rangiris to come over and ask her to calm down. But Jiang allegedly screamed and hurled invectives at the immigration employee.

Since she was causing a commotion, airline personnel and other immigration intelligence employees tried to pacify her and asked her to go back to the exclusion room. But she adamantly refused and shouted back at the immigration agents, the report said.
The Chinese national also allegedly lied flat on the floor and appeared to have breathing problems. “Witnesses said Ms. Huixiang looked as if she was trying to kill herself,” the report added.

Before reaching the door of the BI exclusion room, Jiang supposedly “got wild again” and started to kick Rangiris, prompting him to retaliate. “Rangiris appeared to use reasonable force to drive her towards the nearby rest room where she eventually calmed down,” the report said.

On-duty security guard Delisia Yap, who was seen on the video pushing Jiang’s red luggage, also disclosed in the report that the woman became unruly when she moved her luggage from the exclusion room to the airport’s transfer lobby.

Yap added that Jiang bit the right hand of a colleague when the latter tried to restrain her.

Jiang’s flight back to Beijing had to be postponed for a day after she supposedly became unruly when she was being escorted to the plane, compelling airline authorities to off-load her. She was later deported back to Beijing on Tuesday night.

Immigration Commissioner Siegfred Mison said he had informed Chinese Consul General Qiu Jian that the bureau would conduct an investigation, with the possibility of filing charges against those involved. The bureau said it may also file criminal charges against Jiang.

The Inquirer tried to get the side of Xavier School, but principal Jane Cacacho said she did not know anyone named Jiang Huixiang who taught there.

After apologizing and saying she was in a meeting, the phone call was dropped. The Inquirer then called the school’s trunkline, but was told that everybody had gone home.–With Kristine Felisse Mangunay

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[Horsepower]

They should have tased her instead. haha

Paano kung halimaw na intsik yun tipong Yao Ming? Unstoppable na? Immigration agents should always have tasers and guns in their person so they don't have to handle CRIMINALS like this.

Actually, napakalaking problema ng Pinas itong mga illegal chinks. Most of them would pose as tourists only to work here illegally, often in drug labs, nickel and gold mines, steal work from the locals etc. Bottomline, they are here to ruin the country. Imagine, they'd mine here, destroy our environment, and ship out the loot illegally. Ganun sila kagago. They corrupt the officials in the town they chose, ruffle the business by undercutting everyone and pag nalugi na ang competition, monopolized na nila ang business sa lugar because they even restrict the supply of goods to raise prices. That's why they often get assassinated - which they deserve in the bigger scheme of things. Pati mga wet market ngayon pinapasok na rin nila. Same tactic, undercut everyone massively para sila lang ang makabenta at malugi ang ibang vendor.

Our government spends hundreds of millions for interagency working groups & tracker teams to search for these criminals. They even arm themselves to resist law enforcement officers kaya minsan SAF ang pinapadala because NBI just isn't enough.

So, FILIPINOS, before you judge and condemn that officer, know why it even went as far as that when all that she should have done is to go back to her country. She resisted, used violence and the airline staff had no choice but to ask for assistance to subdue an unruly person being served a deportation.

[Bin Diesel]

Dapat tinazer na lang nila nung nagwala para kumalma yung "unruly" na chinese. Ang pangit kasi talaga tingnan na sinampal pabalik yung babae e.

[foresterx]

wala naman tazer mga airport police/security, immigration officer at police natin eh.

[Monseratto]

Eh CCTV nga lang wala talaga, tazer pa? Baka wala pa nga handcuffs... If not for the phone camcorder, makakalusot si immigration officer at di kakalat sa media. Baka may ibang kaso ng ganito sa NAIA na di reported.

[Walter]

Ngii...Chinese teacher taga Xavier Schoo dawl. DECS should investigate how a school allow illegal foreigners without the necessary permits to work there...

They should investigate how a school allows a psycho to teach.

[strayWOLF]

Eh CCTV nga lang wala talaga, tazer pa? Baka wala pa nga handcuffs... If not for the phone camcorder, makakalusot si immigration officer at di kakalat sa media. Baka may ibang kaso ng ganito sa NAIA na di reported.

Likely this has happened before. Buti talaga someone captured this on video otherwise, nothing would have been done and no one would know.


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[holdencaulfield]

pinepenitrate na tayo ng mga tsino.
naalala ko tuloy yung mga hapon pre-ww2.
andito sila as drivers, hardinero, etc. na magtatrabaho kuno. spy na pala.

[rollyic]

pinepenitrate na tayo ng mga tsino.
naalala ko tuloy yung mga hapon pre-ww2.
andito sila as drivers, hardinero, etc. na magtatrabaho kuno. spy na pala.

andon na sila ngayon sa divisoria...nagtitinda.
mapapansin mo, yung mga tindera nila ang pinapakausap sayo at taga tanggap lang sila ng pera.
kasi hindi sila gaanong marunong mag tagalog.