LAST week, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair Imee Marcos filed a resolution calling for a Senate inquiry into the supposedly secret “negotiations” between the Philippines and the United States to “house” thousands of Afghan “refugees” in the Philippines. In filing Senate Resolution 651, the sister of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.…
LAST week, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair Imee Marcos filed a resolution calling for a Senate inquiry into the supposedly secret “negotiations” between the Philippines and the United States to “house” thousands of Afghan “refugees” in the Philippines.
· To qualify for the SIV, Afghans must be employed by or on behalf of the US government in Afghanistan, provided “faithful and valuable service” to the US government, and experienced or experiencing an ongoing serious threat following their association with the Americans. Most of the first batch of approved SIV applicants fled to the US on their own.
· According to the US State Department, a total of 8,950 SIV applicants were relocated from Afghanistan for continued Afghan SIV processing from September 2021 to February 2023.In this August 22, 2021, file photo, a family walks toward a US Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.
· Manalo said there was a suggestion among DFA officials to accommodate a small number, “probably a thousand applicants for a pilot program.” During the Senate hearing, Manalo said that aside from being a defense treaty ally of the Americans, the Philippines has a long-standing tradition of providing humanitarian assistance to people who are being persecuted.
The NCMF, meanwhile, thinks chances of “sleeper cells” among the SIV applicants are little. But they fret that sympathizers among the Muslim rebel groups in the Philippines may feel that their Afghan Muslim brothers and sisters would be discriminated against by restricting their movements.
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