A group of workers in the Philippines Bureau of Immigration have sent a memo to the country’s Secretary of Justice Leila de Lima, asking to conduct an investigation on the bureau’s P50 million biometric project, reports The Daily Tribune.

The workers, who are also in the group PRO-Philippine Immigration Advocates, claims the biometric project in question is replacing an effort that would not have cost the government any money to implement.
The group claims that the bureau could have used the Passenger Automated Service System (Philpass) to profile and screen arriving passengers; however Immigration Commissioner Ricardo David, Jr. has argued otherwise, paving the way for a biometrics project that involves procurement of software, hardware and services.

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