The United States has no intention of negotiating with the Philippines on the deportation of 100,000 Filipino immigrants!
Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel Romualdez said on July 21 that the US President's immigration deportation policy left no room for negotiations with the Philippines. The best thing the Philippines can do is ensure that those deported Filipinos are sent back to the Philippines, rather than being left in a third country.
The Philippine Embassy in Washington lacks up-to-date data on Filipinos facing deportation, but the ambassador estimates that the number may be close to 100,000, many of whom live in California.
"The bottom line is that there's really not much room for discussion. We just need to work in a way that all Filipinos who are scheduled for deportation will be deported to the Philippines, not to a third country. I think it has been agreed that any form of deportation, as long as they are Filipino citizens, we will ensure they are deported to the Philippines."
The exact number of deported Filipinos is a classified matter of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: "They will only inform us when they see that the Philippine Embassy is cooperating with them to study how to repatriate these Filipinos."
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