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7 menor de edad na ipapadala sana sa Saudi, nasagip sa Pasay

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 10 03:06 PM

Sinalakay at ininspeksiyon ng NBI ang isang ''accommodation house'' sa Pasay City kung saan umano ibinabahay ng isang agency ang mga recruit. Read more »

A Venezuelan family's desperate journey

Rodrigo Almonacid, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 30 12:47 AM

On foot, by bus, on the backs of juddering trucks, like tens of thousands of others they slogged for days along the Pan-American highway through Colombia and Ecuador.  Read more »

On foot, Venezuela's poor seek better lives across South America

Anastasia Moloney, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Aug 27 11:49 PM

With rampant hyperinflation - the International Monetary Fund forecasts Venezuela's inflation could reach 1 million percent by year's end - the monthly minimum wage barely covers the cost of a kilo of rice or flour. Read more »

Poland may take Filipino workers: minister

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 29 08:09 AM

Poland, whose right-wing government opposes taking in migrants, may have to look to Filipino workers to cover a growing labor shortage hurting the economy, a senior official said Saturday. Read more »

U.S. says 463 migrant parents may have been deported without kids

Tom Hals and Reade Levinson, Reuters
Posted at Jul 24 09:04 AM

More than 450 immigrant parents who were separated from their children when they entered the United States illegally are no longer in the country though their children remain behind, according to a joint court filing on Monday by the federal government and the American Civil Liberties Union. Read more »

OPINION: The invisible Filipino, and a young man named Alphonse Areola

Jijil Jimenez
Posted at Jul 22 07:44 PM

The question is not whether our children and future children would want to be Filipinos because they are, but whether they would still want to despite it. Read more »

PH, 191 countries agree on pact to manage mass global migration

Ellen Wulfhorst, Reuters
Posted at Jul 14 06:40 PM

The non-binding agreement aims to make migration safe and orderly amid issues of national sovereignty and international cooperation, UN officials said. Read more »

Only some migrant families to be reunited in U.S. as deadline arrives

Reuters
Posted at Jul 11 01:52 AM

NEW YORK - Facing a court-imposed deadline on Tuesday, the U.S. government has said it expects to have reunited 54 young children and parents separated by immigration officials after crossing into the United States from Mexico. Read more »

1,000 Pinoy nars kailangan sa Saudi; requirements mas pinadali : POEA

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 06 09:38 PM

Hindi man singlaki ng sahod sa Europa ngunit mas madali naman daw ang rekisito para makapasa dahil hindi kasinghigpit ang qualifications na kailangan sa Saudi.  Read more »

Mga nais mag-Kuwait, di pa rin makaalis kahit wala nang 'ban'

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 03 07:50 PM

Paliwanag ng POEA, pagkatapos kasi ng pirmahan ng MOU ay kinailangan pa nilang maglabas ng resolusyon at implementing rules and guidelines. Read more »

US government says it will detain illegal migrant children and parents together

Reuters
Posted at Jun 30 02:17 PM

The US government said in a court filing on Friday that it has the right to detain children and parents caught crossing the US border illegally for the duration of their immigration proceedings. Read more »

Undocumented mothers file lawsuit to be reunited with kids

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 27 09:12 AM

LOS ANGELES - Three undocumented migrant mothers filed a lawsuit Tuesday against President Donald Trump's administration, demanding to be reunited with the daughters they were forcibly separated from after crossing the Mexican border to seek asylum. Read more »

Migrants 'knock at front door' for asylum after Trump crackdown

Anthony Esposito and Lizbeth Diaz, Reuters
Posted at Jun 25 02:58 PM

More Mexicans and Central Americans are lining up to make asylum requests at the US-Mexico border as word spreads of a US crackdown on families crossing illegally and the threat of brutal gangs lying in wait if they go it alone. Read more »

Pope criticizes Trump administration policy on migrant family separation

Philip Pullella, Reuters
Posted at Jun 20 05:33 PM

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border, saying populism is not the answer to the world's immigration problems. Read more »

Bumubuting relasyon ng Pilipinas at Kuwait, ikinatuwa ng OFWs

Maxxy Santiago, ABS-CBN Middle East News Bureau
Posted at May 10 07:22 PM

KUWAIT CITY – Nakatakdang pirmahan ng Kuwait at Pilipinas sa Biyernes ang kasunduan para sa proteksiyon at deployment ng Filipino household service workers dito. Read more »

PH eyes partial lifting of Kuwait deployment ban

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 10 07:04 PM

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the Philippine government might consider the partial lifting of a ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to Kuwait after the signing of a deal for the protection of Filipino workers in the Gulf state. Read more »

3 Pinay na kinasuhan sa Malta, nagpapasaklolo sa pamahalaan

Rose Eclarinal, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau
Updated as of Apr 30 06:07 PM

Mapait ang sinapit ng tatlong Pinoy sa mala-paraisong bansa ng Malta matapos silang kasuhan ng human trafficking doon.   Read more »

Canada's permanent residency program for caregivers to end in Nov. 2019

Marjorie Carmona Newman, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau
Updated as of Apr 11 06:56 PM

EDMONTON, Canada – The recent announcement made by the Canadian government that it will no longer accept applications for permanent residency from caregivers by November 2019 has participants of the program in panic. Read more »

Trump vows to deploy military to Mexican border

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Apr 04 01:16 PM

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to deploy the military to secure America's southern border, as a caravan of Central American migrants headed north through Mexico toward the United States. Read more »

Israel cancels plan to deport African migrants

Michael Blum, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 03 03:33 AM

Israel announced Monday it had reached a deal with the UN refugee agency to cancel a controversial plan to deport African migrants and replace it with a new one that will see thousands sent to Western countries. Read more »