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Undesirable alien

 Pet Melliza Undesirable alien April 17, 2018 You are a foreigner in this blighted land, you don't have to be a member of a crime ring "Yakuza", "Bamboo Triad", or "Mafia" to be called "undesirable". Under the present dispensation, these denizens of the underworld are de facto desirable, hence welcomed and even freed from detention. You don't have to be a trafficker of drugs, women and children, to get tagged "undesirable" for arrest and deportation. You only need to be madly in love with the marginalized Filipinos like landless peasants and Lumads. You only need to be with them, live their dreams and sorrows, and struggle with them for human dignity. That's the fate befallen Sr. Patricia Fox, NDS, a frail 71-year old Australian nun, who's currently detained at the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation, awaiting summary deportation proceeding for, of all things she'd never been one for over two decades in the Philipp