Big Mike to SC: Strike down DoJ travel ban
By Benjamin B. Pulta and Charlie V. Manalo 08/13/2011Former First Gentleman Juan Miguel “Mike” Arroyo isn’t taking the watch list order on him, issued by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, sitting down as he asked the high court yesterday to void this order against him.
At the same time, his son, Rep. Juan Miguel (Mikey) Arroyo, currently in the United States, has reportedly cut his trip short over a watch list order that is also being dangled by De Lima, who has also ordered former President, now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo placed on a watch list despite the fact that the former President is currently being hospitalized after a botched second surgery on her cervical spine arising from an infection.
Mike Arroyo asked the Supreme Court yesterday to stop the the Department of Justice (DoJ) from placing him on the immigration watchlist, saying the order violated his constitutional rights to travel, due process and equal protection under the law.
In his petition filed through his lawyers Inocencio Ferrer and Ateneo law professor Poncevic Ceballos, the elder Arroyo said DoJ Department Circular No. 41 ordering that he be placed on the Bureau of Immigration (BI) watch list was issued with “grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110813hed1.html
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