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Transcript
00:00Now, US President-elect Donald Trump is about to return to the White House to discuss the plan of mass deportation of illegal immigrants in America.
00:10The plans of the Philippine government about this will be announced in the first news of JP Soriano.
00:15In the return of US President-elect Donald Trump to the White House in January, he also broke his promise when he was campaigning for mass deportation of all illegal immigrants in America.
00:32For the Filipinos, TNT or the so-called Tago ng Tago, there are 300,000 according to our embassy in America.
00:40But the Filipinos do not follow the law, according to the Office of Migration Affairs of the Department of Foreign Affairs.
00:49US Ambassador to the Philippines Mary Kay Carlson said that the Americans have high regard and respect for the Filipinos.
00:58Filipinos in the United States, Filipino-Americans make great contributions to our economy,
01:04people talk about the role of Philippine angels during the pandemic, not just in the U.S., not just here in the Philippines, but around the world.
01:13So on a person-to-person basis, just looking at it from a humanitarian perspective, of course we want to make sure that every person is treated with dignity.
01:23In a legal way, the Philippine consulates in America are actively helping all Filipino illegal immigrants.
01:31Voluntarily or by force of their return to the Philippines, it is possible that they will have a hard time adjusting or starting again,
01:39according to the International Organization for Migration or IOM Philippines.
01:44That's why it's important that the government has a concrete plan for them.
01:49We strongly advocate that they be given reintegration assistance. There needs to be support for those families.
01:57The Department of Migrant Workers in TESDA, DOLE, DTI and others are working together.
02:04Facilitation of possible employment options. We have partnered with European countries,
02:11partnerships with Hungary, Croatia and Austria. There could be other options of course even in Asia and the Middle East.
02:20This is the first news. J.P. Soriano for GMA Integrated News.
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