US judge says Filipino teachers’ case falls under human trafficking law

Great to see action being taken to prosecute these people responsible for this. Anyone who takes advantage of others because of their poor financial situation should be ashamed, and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

This is how democracy works. THE COURTS interpret the law, not the executive, not the legislative, and certainly not any of the boards and district offices under the executive or the legislative.
The law may not always be interpreted correctly, but the challenges go up the ladder of the judicial branch, and the buck ends at the feet of Supreme Court judges, and what THEY say is the final interpretation of the law, no matter how the executive or the legislative branches feel.
Learn from this, Pnoy.

cheers to Steve Monaghan for his duty care to the plight of Filipino teachers. Boooo to East Baton Rouge Parish School Board for not adhering to their code of ethics and treating FIlipino as number and not as person…..

diko alam ang aking reaction
kung ma shock ako or magalit or mainis or ano
grabe ano?
sa U.S. pa nangyari
na revive ang slavery na akala ko pina abolish na sa panahon ni Pres Abe Lincoln.
naawa ako sa kababayan nating nadenggoy
kung sino man ang Recruiter nian, dapat managot

Anywhere there are bad people (even Church officials take advantage of the innocents – only in PH they are good in covering it because of our culture). The US have a law to punish them and the law in the US works as written, else their SC will translate it and they are satisfied with the interpretation. Compare to PH our law is not clear (I believe it was intentionally written vague) that is why those who can hire expensive lawyers can get around with our law. Also even our SC (before Corona) translate it, there are other sectors who come out with their own interpretation. Senators and Congressmen who have large number of bill submitted/passed is just making papogi to keep them in power and those bills are popular at that time but later there will be a lot of problem and the people suffers (quality is better than quantity – there are many hidden agenda in quantity, overall is no good).

i commend him too

I was just wondering how your comment included this phrase: ”
even Church officials take advantage of the innocents
- only in PH they are good in covering it because of our culture  …”   How is this related to this article? Is it because this is against 
East Baton Rouge Parish Board, which has nothing to do with any church at all!  As the definition of parish in the context of the State of Louisiana says: 
 A parish is an administrative subdivision in Louisiana that corresponds to a county in other U.S. states.

Is it in America?

High apartment rental could happen in Ontario too, immigrants were charged sometimes for 6 months or more upfront and the owner or superintendent of the apartment would say, it is for the benefit of  the immigrant. Any reader who would like to challenge this statement can go to Mississauga and ask few questions to immigrants who arrived in the 90′s and early in the millennium.

About confiscation of the passports, that could be an idea of an arab descent. Only in Saudi Arabia and other arab countries (what I used to think) are places where passports are confiscated by the employer so that the employee cannot go anywhere (he/she becomes an automatic criminal if he/she leaves his/her employer even if the reason is valid). Basically arabs are worst of the worst kind. The blacks should not have problem with the statement because the arabs were the first successful mariners who raided the coast of africa for slave trade.

I worked in the US for several years (with TN visa) and I found out that american attitude is generally stupid. I pointed that out to my barber in Tulsa, who was a retired colonel together with his twin brother, that there should be no Bradley Fighting Vehicle but instead a Patton Fighting Vahicle because Gen Bradley was more of an armchair general who was the darling of the politicians during the war. The colonel was honest enough to tell me that he had never thought of that before. [He and his brother enlisted as privates and were both recommended for COC. Both of them were highly decorated but were retired nonetheless by the Army. He was assigned all over the world but not in the Philippines. He and his brother in 2 separate units became Powerpoint aide for their respective commanding general, I can't remember if my barber was with either the "screaming eagle" or the "big red one". He talked fondly of his son who plays soccer and his daughters who were always in their swimming pool learning synchronized swimming].

I also complained about America’s  (or American’s) fondness for countries (or people) that (who) do not support America’s policies anywhere, anytime, like India and Pakistan. The assistance that America has given to Pakistan was so big as compared to what it gave to the Philippines. Any other nationality can easily go to America but not the Filipinos who are always at America’s authority’s cross-hairs and are promptly deported unlike the others. Tactical airlift planes could not re-fuel in India but through Bill Gates Indians are coming and going in droves in America. In Pakistan, when an earthquake struck, many New York doctors went and volunteered to treat the people in the villages ravaged by the tremor. The doctors became exasperated because they found out that they should carry the injured themselves while the Pakistani men where watching them from afar.

There was an old fellow who worked with me at EDS who said once that if he decides to go to Manila, he would get 2 mistresses and be protected by paying a policeman some sort of a retainer’s fee. I retorted to him that he cannot do that because he is too old and he is not rich.If he thought that he can insult my people, then he should be ready to be insulted back.One day, I mentioned about an average Filipino’s respect for Americans is partly due to the endearing legacy of General MacArthur. He became agitated that he mentioned about his father’s complaint about MacArthur failure to provide the marines (his father was a sergeant)  air cover during the battle in or somewhere near PNG. According to what his father narrated to him, the tide of the battle was back and forth when MacArthur’s convoy of aircraft passed overhead with fighter escort and ground attack planes but they all went by while marines were dying below. I replied to him, the Marines itself had air support group that whoever was in command letting those men too vulnerable, should be court-martialed. Then he added for a good measure that, “..anyway MacArthur was not a good man, that was the reason why he was relieved of his command”. I replied, “yes, Patton was not a good man and was MacArthur too and also Earps were worse than train robbers, like Jesse James who’s until now young Americans looked up to, Al Capone’s name is more popular than Elliot Ness and that the Kennedy brothers were that abusive and they deserved to die”. His face became so red and I ended my launched break and headed back to our department.

I can go on and on relating my anecdotal experience with the Americans in the workplace. But the above should be adequate to sufficiently describe their treatment of Filipinos and anyone they consider too ambitious or with “holier- than-thou” attitude.

very nice, and i agree with you.

Thanks.