A Chinese national, who has been reportedly convicted of sex crimes in the United States, has been barred from entering the Philippines.

In a statement, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) identified the Chinese national as Kang Gong, 26, who arrived last Thursday night, Sept. 28, at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) from Hong Kong.

“We cannot allow this undesirable alien to enter our country, lest our Filipino children become his next victims,” BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said.

Tansingco said that Gong was intercepted "after his name registered a hit in the Interpol’s (International Criminal Police Organization) database of convicted alien criminals.”

He said the records of Interpol's National Central Bureau in Manila showed that in 2021 “a circuit court in Michigan convicted Gong of three counts of child sexual abuse, and used computers in distributing and promoting sex pornography.”

“Gong allegedly committed the crime from April to July 2000 when he received more than a hundred pornographic materials of sexually abused children and distributed them to the public,” Bi said. 

Seven months after his conviction, the BI said “Gong was deported to China from the US on Oct. 22, 2021.”

Tansingco reminded that the Philippine Immigration Act strictly prohibits the entry into the Philippines of foreigners convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude as they are likely to commit the same offense if they are allowed to enter the country.

“He was thus excluded and booked on the first available flight to his port of origin,” and "his name included in the BI's blacklist of unwanted aliens," he also said.