Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose Manuel Romualdez. | FILE PHOTO: Gabriel P. Lalu/ INQUIRER.web
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine Ambassador to america (US) Jose Manuel “Babe” Romualdez stated it might be higher for undocumented Filipinos within the US to depart as a substitute of going through deportation.
Romualdez made his comment in gentle of President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to conduct an unprecedented mass deportation of undocumented foreigners.
Trump was elected president of the US on Tuesday, securing a White Home comeback 4 years after his loss to President Joe Biden.
Trump, who was the forty fifth US president, additionally turned the forty seventh when he secured greater than 270 electoral votes, profitable in opposition to US Vice President Kamala Harris.
READ: Undocumented immigrants in US ‘terrified’ as Trump returns
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“In the event that they (Filipinos) haven’t any path to staying [in the US] legally, it’s higher to depart as a substitute of being deported; in any other case the probabilities of with the ability to come again is sort of zero,” Romualdez informed INQUIRER.web in a textual content message on Friday.
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The ambassador earlier stated that a lot of the 200,000 undocumented Filipinos in america have already filed petitions for everlasting residency standing.
READ: PH envoy sees Filipino migrants protected from Trump mass deportation plan
In 2023, a report by the Migration Coverage Institute in Washington D.C. confirmed that the Philippines is the sixth prime supply of undocumented (unauthorized) immigrants within the US with a inhabitants estimated at 309,000 in 2021.
READ: Undocumented Filipinos in US now estimated at 309,000
The estimated unauthorized immigrant inhabitants within the US was 11.2 million in 2021, up from 11.0 million in 2019, with a bigger annual progress charge seen since 2015.
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