3,000 OFWs in prisons worldwide VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 11/19/2009

3,000 OFWs in prisons worldwide VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 11/19/2009 No less than the Department of Foreign Affairs recently and clearly said that there are to date about some 3,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) presently languishing in jails the world over. Millions of men and women with genuine or fabricated documents plus young people with faked ages, left everybody and everything in their otherwise wonderful country fervently hoping to find work abroad — even in nations that are not known for kindness and fair play. Their over-all fundamental concern and intent are rather plain and simple: They simply want to earn a living. They merely want to have jobs of practically any kind. They only want to extend financial.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20091119com6.html

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