BI Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado said the Chinese nationals were sent back to China on Thursday afternoon.
They were among those apprehended during operations conducted with the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission in Pasay City and Cebu.
The deportees have been added to the agency’s immigration blacklist, permanently barring them from re-entering the country.
“Their deportation serves as a clear message that illegal activities by foreign nationals will not be tolerated,” Viado said in a statement.
The BI was supposed to deport 190 Chinese nationals, but only 187 were boarded since one had a hold departure order while the two had other pending cases in the country.
President Ferdinand “Bongbong R. Marcos Jr. announced a total ban on Pogo during his State of the Nation Address in July, and gave them until the end of the year to wrap-up their operations.
Last October, the BI said at least 12,000 foreign Pogo workers filed applications to downgrade their working visas after Marcos’ order.