The United States District Court for Eastern Wisconsin in Milwaukee has ordered a Filipino immigrant couple to pay a Filipina caregiver $1-million in punitive damages after they were found liable for Civil RICO violation for human trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, harboring an alien, mail and wire frauds. The $1-Million award is on top of… Read More »
Q. Hi Wong , I’ve been reading your advices in the Balita together with our fellow kababayans. Naglakas loob po akong sumulat sa inyo dahil sa aking problema. I don’t know kung saan ako hihingi ng advice since I don’t have any relative here in Canada. I don’t know kung ano ang itatawag ninyo sa akin because my… Read More »
Concern for Filipinos overseas was the biggest worry of Pinoys at home the last few weeks. The turmoil besetting Libya had kin and families of OFW’s stationed in that Muslim nation going into hysterics and rushing to the Foreign Affairs Office in Manila to squeeze more details to the scanty reportings of what is actually happening there and… Read More »