Saturday, July 15, 2006

Illegal Immigrants

When the US talks of illegal immigrants, they usually imply Mexicans but the dirty little secret is that they come from all over: I've heard there are 50 000 illegal Irish, and they estimate there are 400 000 illegal Pinoys in the USA.

Europe is now starting to discuss the problem, but I haven't been following it.

But every once in awhile, local Asian countries decide to deport illegals, and usually it affects the Philippines.
Today, it is Malaysia deporting an estimated 400 000 illegals, of whom 100 000 are Filipinos...

It says a lot about GMA that she sees visiting Pinoys in Saudi or in Libya as a big deal, and comes back bragging that Spain will let in 500 000 Pinoys to work there. The result is that this country is losing it's hardest working most ambitious workers, while corruption is discouraging business from starting factories here.

But today on TV they announced corruption was down...wonder how they measure it?

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