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FILIPINO BOXER MANNY PACQUIAO: SENATOR FOR ALL RIVAL PARTIES

August 25, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Filipino champion boxer Manny Pacquiao, as many already know, is an elected representative of Philippine Congress. He represents his province of Sarangani.

Pacquiao is a member of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), the party of incumbent Vice President Jejomar Binay, who is one of the declared candidates for president in 2016. So it just makes sense that if Pacquiao were to run for Senator, he would do so under the UNA ticket, right?

Not necessarily.

Pacquiao is also being wooed by the ruling Liberal Party of President NoyNoy Aquino who has anointed his Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas as the party’s presidential bet.

But the story doesn’t end there.

Senators Grace Poe and Chiz Escudero who have been endorsed by a third party, the National People’s Coalition (NPC) as either presidential candidates both, or as a president-vice president tandem, are also considering Pacquiao to be part of their senatorial ticket.

Apparently, Pacquiao is seen as a sure winner and all the parties want him on their respective tickets. The decision is now in the boxer’s corner.

‘Pacman’ is extremely popular and is best known politically as the top absentee legislator in the current Congress. Well, that counts for something, we guess.

International, Law Enforcement, Politics

FOUR OF DONALD TRUMP’S FIVE CHILDREN ARE ANCHOR BABIES, FACE DEPORTATION

August 25, 2015 Pol Pinoy 2 Comments

The Trump Children (photo: People magazine)

WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is about to get a dose of his own medicine.

Trump has been very vocal in the campaign trail about his dislike for immigrants and has called on the Department of Homeland Security to deport all anchor babies — children born in the U.S. to non-citizen mothers.

Well, Homeland Security came knocking on his door (Tower, actually) with a deportation order for four of his five children.

Except for Tiffany (daughter of Marla Maples), the rest of the Trump children are anchor babies, born to immigrant mothers Ivana from Czechoslovakia and Melania from Slovenia.

Trump’s own mother, Mary Ann MacLeod was born in Scotland which would technically make The Donald an anchor baby himself. Will he also get the boot from Homeland Security?

Diversity, Politics, Race Relations

JEB BUSH: ANCHOR BABIES = ASIAN PEOPLE

August 24, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MCALLEN, Texas (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Realizing that his recent comments about ‘anchor babies’ could alienate him from Latino voters, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, tried to distance himself from his own statement.

Talking to reporters today, the younger brother of former President George W. Bush said that his comments pertained more to “Asian people,” suggesting that the practice of coming to the United States to give birth to anchor babies was an Asian thing.

Asked if he had any factual basis that Asians are the ones resorting to anchor babies as a way to circumvent the U.S. immigration system, Bush said, “I don’t have to give you facts. Just look at one of my Republican presidential opponents, Piyush Jindal. He’s a poster boy for anchor babies.”