00:00The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission is now targeting more than just the POGO workers in the country.
00:08Some of the POGO workers were abandoned by their families.
00:13This is what Marisol Abduraman is talking about.
00:16Exclusive.
00:20Thousands of Chinese POGO workers have been arrested and deported
00:25in a separate raid against POGO workers in the country last month.
00:30But after this, an unexpected problem emerged
00:34according to the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission.
00:37Children like these were abandoned by their parents who worked for POGO.
00:43This is not an ordinary problem.
00:45We didn't expect this to happen.
00:47We just know that POGO workers will catch us.
00:51There are people who were left behind.
00:54Maya, a one-year-old child, is not her real name.
00:58Her partner is a Chinese POGO worker.
01:01He will be deported to China any day.
01:04I don't know what will happen to us and our child
01:09since I don't have a job.
01:11That's why we were left behind.
01:14Ika's situation is also not her real name.
01:17She also has a one-year-old child from a Chinese national.
01:21Maya and Ika know that when it's time to be deported,
01:24their children may not see their parents again.
01:28That's why they called on the government.
01:31If they have a child, they can consider letting our husband go.
01:38I don't know what will happen to him when he arrives in China.
01:43I hope they will give us a chance, especially our children.
01:47According to Maya and Ika's children,
01:49the two-year-old child of a Vietnamese mother and a Chinese father
01:52is in the care of the POGO workers.
01:55The child is leaving the country stateless.
01:58He will wait until he is 18 years old
02:03to choose his nationality.
02:06The POGO workers are counting on their children
02:09since their parents were imprisoned.
02:12It's very sad because they are asking us to help them
02:17since their parents were deported.
02:20They don't have money to spend, they don't have milk.
02:24Sometimes, when the children are sick,
02:26they come to us to send them to the hospital.
02:29Currently, there are 15 babies born by POGO workers
02:32who are supported by the POGO.
02:34They are now cooperating with the DSWD for help.
02:38For GMA Integrated News,
02:41I am Marisol Abdurrahman,
02:43for 24 Hours.
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