Duterte uses BS Aquino’s repressive immigration policy to suppress rights

“Two wrongs do not make a right. Both the Duterte and the Aquino governments are accountable for the creation and continued use of repressive policies, no doubt for their own gains. In any case, regardless of this useless and ludicrous blaming game, the fact is that this BI order is already being put to use to persecute a nun who has spent almost three decades of her life serving poor communities in the country,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay in response to Duterte’s speech Sunday, April 29, on the basis of the Bureau of Immigration’s decision regarding Sr. Patricia Fox. 

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