QuaCheeGanvsDeportationBoard

9SCRA27

Facts:

PetitionerswerechargedbyProsecutorEmilioGalangbeforetheDeportationBoardfor
theirunauthorizedpurchaseofUSDollarsamountingto$130,000.00.
ItisalsoallegedthatpetitionersbribedFilipinoandAmericanofficerstoevadeprosecution
regardingtheirillegalacts.
Petitionerscontendedthatthechargesdonotconstitutealegalgroundfordeportationof
analien.
TheyalsoaddedthattheDeportationBoardhasnojurisdictionoversuchcharges.
Motionfiledbypetitionerswasdismissedbytheboardthatleadtothepetitioners
escalationofsuchmattertothesupremecourtwhereitwasgivenduecourse.
TheSupremeCourtreturnedthecasetoCFIManila.
CFIManilaissuedaWritofPreliminaryinjunctionrestrainingtheboardfromhearing
Deportationchargesagainstpetitioners.
However,theDeportationboardcontendedthatthey,asanagentofthePresident,has
jurisdictionoverthecharges.

Issue/s:

1. WONthePresidenthastheauthoritytodeportundesirablealiens.
2. WONthedeportationboardhastheauthoritytoissueawarrantofarrest
pending
investigationofsuchcases.

Held:

1. Yes.Section69,Actno.2711oftheRevisedAdministrativeCodeisaclearindication
oftherecognitionandratificationbythelegislatureoftheexistenceofsuchpower
vestedintheExecutiveDepartment,providedthatdueinvestigationwasheldpriorto
theexerciseofsuchpower.
2. No.Inthecaseatbar,theBoardissuedawarrantofarrest
pending
investigationand
evenfixedabondforpetitionerstemporaryrelease.Thelawprovidesthatarrestcan
onlybeexercisedafterdueinvestigationasitisnecessaryinenforcingthepowerof
deportation.TheCourtfurtherlaiddowntwowaysonhowdeportationcanbeeffected:
A.)ThroughtheorderofthePresident,
afterinvestigation
,pursuanttosection69,Act
no.2711oftheRevisedAdministrativeCode,and2.)ThroughtheCommissionof
ImmigrationuponrecommendationbytheBoardofCommissionersunderSection37
ofCommonwealthActNo,613.