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11/19/2008
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| The MOA was signed recently in Davao City by the Philippine Overseas
Employment Administration (POEA), the Overseas Workers Welfare
Administration (OWWA), the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Davao
City chapter, the Ateneo Legal Services Office, the University of Mindanao
Legal Aid Office, and the Southern Philippines Federation of Labor (SPFL). |
| The MOA was signed by Regalado, OWWA Administrator Eleuterio Gardiner, IBA
Davao City Chapter President Laurente Ilagan, Ateneo Legal Services Office
Executive Director Fr. Agustin Nazareno, UM Legal Aid Office Suising
Attorney Renato Pagatpatan and Southern Philippines Federation of Labor
National Secretary and Legal Counsel Wilbur Fuentes. |
| The pilot project was initially launched in Mindanao where there is an
alarming increase in the number of victims of illegal recruitment as well as
complaints of unpaid money claims of OFWs. |
| A darling of liberals, the Legal Services Corp. - which once had Hillary on
its board - got into trouble again; one of its North Carolina affiliates was
heavily fined for violating the law.
North Carolina Farmworker Legal Services flouted a federal regulation
banning the use of LSC funds to assist aliens anywhere outside of the United
States; it was caught using federal and/or state tax money to help aliens in
Mexico who had yet to arrive in the United States.
For so violating federal law, N.C. Farmworkers Legal Services was fined
$17,050 - a sum equal to the amount the agency had spent in two weeks of trying
to illegally extend LSCs duties from representing the poor in America to
representing the poor abroad as well. (Who will pay the $17,050 fine is
unknown, but watchdogs need to make sure LSCs North Carolina umbrella group,
Legal Services of North Carolina, doesnt just use taxpayer money to pay its
fine.)
One good result - N.C. Farmworkers Legal Services, the LSC affiliat. |
| The stepped-up campaign was waged following President Joseph Erap Ejercito
Estradas fresh crackdown on illegal recruiters in the light of the
suspected systematic murder of OFWs, whose organs are being sold by an
international syndicate in cahoots with unscrupulous Filipino recruiters. |
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