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On August 2, 2023, Jerhode Baltazar was shot (mistaken for a murderer) by Navotas cops. Extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances in the Philippines are illegal executions – unlawful or felonious killings – and forced disappearances in the Philippines. [1] These are forms of extrajudicial punishment, and include extrajudicial ...
The national debt of the Philippines is the total debt, or unpaid borrowed funds, carried by the national government of the Philippines. As of the end of February 2024, the total national debt of the Philippines amounts to ₱15.18 trillion ($269.4 billion). [1]
By the end of Duterte's term, the number of drug suspects killed since Duterte took office was officially tallied by the Philippine government as 6,252. [13] Human rights groups, including the ICC, however, claim drug casualties reached as high as 12,000 to 30,000 [ 14 ] and the killings reached their peak between 2016 and 2017.
In December 2017, the parliament approved legislation which would allow the government to overrule the Supreme Court to deport 40 000 illegal immigrants. In the preceding decade, some 60 000 illegal immigrants entered Israel by crossing the border with Egypt. Some were legitimate refugees, most were economic migrants. [234]
A separate ruling upheld the prosecution of people who encourage illegal immigration. [16] On June 4, 2024, Biden passed an executive order to shut down the border if illegal crossings reached an average of 2,500 migrants a day in a given week. [17] Migrant encounters subsequently dropped down to 2020 levels. [18] [19]
The Philippine Immigration Act prescribes fourteen different visas grouped into two broad categories: Section 9 visas (non-immigrant visas), for temporary visits such as those for tourism, business, transit, study or employment. Section 13 visas (immigrant visas), for foreign nationals who wish to become permanent residents in the Philippines.
Italy. 158,926 (2023 Italian census) [18] Jordan. 40,538 (2020) [19] Lebanon. 33,424 (2020) [19] An overseas Filipino (Filipino: Pilipino sa ibayong-dagat) is a person of full or partial Filipino origin who trace their ancestry back to the Philippines but are living and working outside of the country.
On 10 June, a local trader in Tawau was stabbed to death by Filipino illegal immigrants with all of the perpetrators were later arrested by police. [244] [245] On 11 June, a clash occurred between local and Filipino illegal immigrants in Ranau with a local man was assaulted by the Filipino group.