Trump targets Filipino illegals :: Up to 4 million Pinoys without documents

illegals to be deported

It is a protest that is picking up steam slowly but surely!
The new President of the most powerful nation on the earth has been chosen and will be occupying his throne on the 20th January 2017.
On Tuesday, one of his properties in New York saw a large group of immigrants, their advocates, sympathizers and support-groups engage in protesting his election to the post of President while denouncing his outlook and views on the migrant issue.
Pinoy angle
But, apart from the general nature of the protest, there was also a Pinoy angle to the whole episode.
Silvestre Bello III, the Secretary Labor of the Government of the Philippines had something straightforward to say in the matter of his countrymen who are living on illegally without proper documents in the US.
He alleged that it was the Filipino migrants who were specifically being targeted with an intention of deportation from the US; according to him, no other ethnic community was handpicked for such a treatment. But, he went on to say that, contrary to popular belief, the Filipinos falling under this category were not so numerous.
Moreover, he stated that the Government of the Philippines was firmly committed to support the cause of their compatriots who were in need of any type of help in this matter’ they could count on prompt help from home.
However, he also stated that there was no impending crisis or any emergency need to act immediately since the very structure of the US legal system ensured that any litigation against the migrants will not be summary and will have to pass all the tests that are provided under the system.
Trump’s aces
Donald Trump might have been somewhat of an outsider during the campaign leading to his election as the President of the United States but he is no novice.
He not only knows what is required and how to get it; he has shown to people that he is not the President today for nothing.
But, like all issues immigration and connected issues are his favorite hunting ground; he thrives on making sweeping statements regarding his intentions and how he intends to tackle the situation of illegal immigrants that is close to the American Heart.
Knowing his hardcore approach to these common US problems, he has now become the subject of protests against his election since in the very first declaration on the subject he told that he was on the verge of deporting about 3 million illegal aliens who had been staying illegally in the US.
But, he is a systematic man and this emerged from his analysis of the problem and his plans to tackle it.
When questioned by an interviewer in 60 minutes, a program on CBS last Sunday, his views on the subject were quite clear and showed some deep thinking had been done on the subject. This became evident when he mentioned that his first priority in getting rid of undesirable aliens from his country would be directed at those illegal immigrants that had a criminal record.
It is true that the category that he was mentioning did number about two to three million and they need to be ejected post haste. This category of illegal immigrants also had a large number of members of criminal gangs, their leaders and all denominations of drug peddlers.
No one in their right minds would have any issue with the removal or locking up of such characters.
He did not go far enough to include the bulk of those who did not possess proper documents but, it is quite evident that, they were going to face the heat once the first round of purging the criminal elements from the US was accomplished.
The figures pertaining to 2013, which were the last ones available, showed that about 90% of the 3.5 million Filipinos living in the United States are without any papers.
And, given the recent troubled relationships between the US and the Philippines, it was no surprise that the Filipinos would be among those that fell under the scanner first.
Bello made a concerted appeal to all such Filipinos to avoid the embarrassment that is likely to be faced by them and exhorted them to come home.
It is known that most of these illegal Filipinos are settled in Florida.
Opportunities growing
Bellos said that it was better that the migrants come back on their own without waiting to be arrested, harassed and passed through the whole embarrassing process of deportation that was adopted by the US legal system. In fact, he mentioned that it might be to the benefit of some of them because the Government of Philippines was introducing several innovative steps which would be providing avenues of business.
It would also be throwing up various employment opportunities.
UMRAO SINGH
Umraoz.wordpress.com
Written for: Lars-Magnus carlsson
www.thephilippinepride.com

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