Deported Pinoys from Sabah worry about future

DYBORRHAE JEWEL M. REYES ABS-CBN Zamboanga Deported Filipinos from Sabah have expressed their apprehensions on returning to their respective native towns after some said that they have been away for a long time while others have just arrived in Malaysia when caught by Malaysian authorities in an ongoing crackdown on illegal migrants. On their last day at the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Center for Displaced Person in Barangay Talon-talon, some of the Filipino deportees who arrived last Saturday expressed mixed reactions over the kind of life that awaits them in their native hometown. DSWD personnel on Tuesday handed out cash assistance to deportees that would serve as their transportation fare in boarding a vessel bound for their provinces. Most of the remaining deportees are heading to Mapun,... [read full story]