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Arroyo accused of neglecting Filipinos in US
MANILA, Philippines – Citing various policies or the lack of it, an organization of Filipino-Americans in Los Angeles, California on Tuesday accused President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of neglecting Filipinos in the United States.
The Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines (AJLPP) said in a statement that the Arroyo administration is not doing anything to protect undocumented Filipinos in the US country.
“Arroyo is guilty of being silent on the community demand for amnesty and legalization of 12 million immigrants in the US, the US-Arroyo regime shows its brazen puppetry,” it said.
According to the Migration Information Source, Filipino immigrants made up 4.4 percent of all immigrants in the US in 2006.
It also said that two-thirds of the Fil-Am population were concentrated in five states: California (750,056 Filipinos – 45.8 percent), Hawaii (99,341 or 6.1 percent), New York
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