MANILA: More than 7,000 Filipinos in Sabah who have been arrested by Malaysian authorities for their “undocumented migrant” status will be deported beginning February, according to Social Welfare Secretary Judy Taguiwalo (pic).
Personnel from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Region IX (Zamboanga Peninsula) and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao are mobilizing troops to provide aid to the thousands of deportees who will soon be arriving in Zamboanga, she said.
