BI arrests 98 fugitives

THE Bureau of Immigration’s sustained campaign against criminals and suspected terrorists has netted nearly a hundred foreign fugitives during the first seven months of the year.

Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said the 98 foreign fugitives arrested from January to August 10 is more than double the 43 wanted aliens who were apprehended in the same period last year.

Morente said that last month alone when the bureau started to operate under his watch, a record 26 foreign fugitives were arrested by immigration agents belonging to the bureau’s fugitive search unit. Five more fugitives were collared in the first week of August.