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Senate President Chiz Escudero has called on the Philippine Embassy in the United States to look into the status of all Filipinos being detained for immigration issues by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and ensure that they have access to legal representation. According to Escudero, he is concerned over reports that there are […]
Makati City Representative Luis Campos Jr. is batting for the passage of new legislation that would criminalize the detention of dead bodies by morgues and funeral parlors on grounds of nonpayment of mortuary services. As proposed by Campos in House Bill No. 1292, any employee or officer of a morgue or funeral home who withholds […]
Senator Bong Go condemned U.S. senators for their “brazen interference” in the judicial process and internal affairs of the Philippines. This came on the heels of the news that a panel of the U.S. Senate has approved an amendment in an appropriations bill that will ban Philippine government officials from entering U.S. territory for their […]