Bureau of Immigration (BI) officers barred three Americans from entering the country for being convicted sex offenders.
Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco said two of the pedophiles were intercepted at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) while the other one arrived at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA).
He said all three were excluded and boarded on the next available flight to their port of origin.
Under the Philippine Immigration Act, aliens convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude are subject to immediate exclusion upon arrival in any of the country’s ports of entry.
Intercepted at the NAIA terminal 1 was 81-year-old David Earl Uland who arrived aboard a Eva Air flight from Taipei.
Uland was reportedly convicted by a US court in 1999 for molesting a minor.
Another American, identified as Peter John Cruz, 64, was denied entry at the NAIA terminal 3 after he arrived via a United Airlines flight from Guam.
Cruz was twice convicted in November 1992 by a court in Guam on charges of criminal sexual misconduct in the first and second degrees wherein his victim is a 14-year-old girl.
Intercepted at the Mactan airport was 56-year-old Clarence Paul Nique, who also arrived from Taipei via an Eva Air flight.
In 2014 a court in Michigan allegedly convicted Nique on the charge of criminal sexual conduct in the second degree wherein the victim is a seven-year-old child.
The e three Americans were placed in the immigration blacklist and perpetually banned from entering the Philippines.