THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) will implement a deportation order issued by its board of commissioners against US Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton despite an absolute pardon by President Rodrigo Duterte.

Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente on Wednesday said the bureau was duty bound and mandated to implement the summary deportation order that the BI's board of commissioners issued against Pemberton on Sept. 16, 2015 for being an undesirable alien.

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