TWO Filipinas who were “hired” to be surrogate mothers allegedly in Hongkong were stopped from leaving the country after the Bureau of Immigration discovered that they were actually bound for China.

Grifton Medina, Immigration Port Operations Division chief,  said in a statement that the bureau’s travel control and enforcement unit (TCEU) intercepted the alleged victims only known as Ria, 32; and Ellie, 28 who were checked in at a Cebu Pacific flight at the immigration departure area of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3.