(Eagle News) — Catholic nun Patricia Fox on Monday, Sept. 3, asked the Department of Justice to review and set aside the Bureau of Immigration’s deportation order against her.
In her petition, Fox reiterated that the BI “prejudged” her case.
She also denied she violated the terms of her missionary visa as claimed by the BI, saying that the activities the agency said were “political” in nature were actually “consistent with her congregation’s charism and mission by which her missionary visa was granted to her in the first place.”
Fox used the same arguments when she appealed the BI order issued in July, but the agency denied this, saying she did not raise any new arguments that warrant a reversal of the order.
Apart from ordering her deportation, the BI had ordered Fox blacklisted, which meant she should be barred from re-entering the country.
“Clearly, Fox’s active participation in political rallies, fact-finding missions and conferences in various areas of the country, as admitted by Fox herself in her Memorandum and as shown by photographs of her in these political activities, is contrary to the conditions laid down by the said orders and her representation when she applied for a missionary visa,” the BI said in its July ruling.
