MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – President Bongbong Marcos has finally stepped into the controversy over the U.S. request for the Philippines to temporarily host Afghan refugees.
The U.S. request comes on the heels of U.S. Congress failing to pass the bill that would grant protections and a path to citizenship to the refugees.
Marcos sent a note verbale to the U.S. Embassy in Manila setting the condition for accepting Afghan refugees.
The condition?
That all Filipino TNTs (Tago ng Tago, or those in hiding from U.S. Immigration authorities) currently in the United States be immediately and automatically given green cards.
No response as yet from the U.S. government.
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Rappler, the online news blog owned by convicted criminal Maria Ressa keeps on reaping accolades. Let’s count the ways:
2. It is the least-trusted news brand in the Philippines four years in a row in the annual Digital News Report by the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
3. It boasts of criminal conviction on cyber libel for its CEO and a former staff person.
4. Its CEO has been accused of lying her way to the Nobel Peace Prize, depriving far more deserving freedom of speech fighters like WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
5. Now, it has added a new feather on its cap: that of hate monger with its Father’s Day greeting!
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