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Senator Raffy Tulfo, chair of the Senate Committees on Labor and Migrant Workers, raised alarm over the growing number of Filipinos victimized by illegal recruitment, human trafficking, and online scams. (via Ellson Quismorio | MB)

READ: https://mb.com.ph/2026/05/01/raffy-tulfo-alarmed-by-spike-in-pinoy-victims-of-illegal-recruitment-human-trafficking


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Transcript
00:00Because of the ongoing oil crisis, many aspects of the life have been affected.
00:06And apart from the rising prices of basic commodities, the second concern of people is work.
00:13There are a lot of OFWs who have been waiting for no time.
00:18There are a lot of negotiations that have been hard and have been able to leave operations or have been
00:24closed.
00:32And while every Filipino deserves decent employment, hindi po ito ang realidad.
00:39Kaya naman, madami nga sa atin ang nangingbambangsa para magkaroon ng maayos na hanap buhay.
00:46Pero kapag ang tao ay kapit sa patalim, kahit hindi legal na trabaho ay pinapasok.
00:54O di kaya madaling pumapatol sa mga inaalok na trabaho ng mga illegal recruiters.
01:01Ito po ang kinakatakutan po.
01:04Sa pagkakadesperado ng mga tao ngayon,
01:08nagbukas ang oportunidad para sa mga gustong abusuhin ang mga pangailangan nila para kunin sila sa mga trabaho iligal.
01:17Ito po ang lumapit sa akin kama kailan, mga babae na dinala sa Malaysia bilang massage therapist.
01:27Pero hindi po ito ang nangyari.
01:30How do these illegal recruitment agencies operate?
01:35And how can we nip it at the bud?
01:38Number two, while we have placed safeguards in preventing these illegal recruitment and trafficking in persons,
01:46they're still able to deploy and leave the country.
01:50Why and how?
01:53Where are the holes in these regulations?
01:57And third, we will look at the accountability of these actions, both criminal and administrative liability.
02:06Are they enough to prevent these things?
02:09It seems kulang pa dahil tulid-tulid pa rin nangyayari,
02:13despite the fact that we have so many laws in place,
02:17policies in place to ensure that human trafficking is not going to happen anymore.
02:24Pero patulid pa rin pong nangyayari.
02:27What can we adjust in our laws to give it more teeth?
02:33The bill filed by Senator Mark Bilyar, which seeks to review the definition of illegal recruitment,
02:39will be our take-off point.
02:42In today's hearing, we will also briefly follow up some issues that our OFWs have raised to my office
02:51so that they could be addressed by our hardworking officials sa DMW and OWA.
02:57OWA, majority po ng aming sinasampang kaso, nakikipagsettle po si complainant.
03:02Yung victim po natin nakikipagsettle.
03:04At nag-settle sila, the court has no other way than to dismiss the case.
03:10Sana meron tayong isang task na sinasabi doon,
03:14ang private complainant is, for example, the department or the IACAT,
03:17hindi yung victim, kasi pag sila po ang complainant at na-dismiss or nakikipagsettle sila,
03:23wala na po magagawa ang korte doon eh.
03:24We would like a law na sila ay isa lamang victim at witness at the same time
03:30so that kahit pakikipagsettle po sila, tuloy-tuloy pa rin yung kaso.
03:35We will prosecute this to the fullest and make sure lahat po ng perpetrators ipapakulong po natin.
03:41Yun po yung wala sa batas at yun po ang kulang natin.
03:45Yun po yung gusto kong ipaliwan.
03:46Napakaganda niya na. Sige, that's why we're here.
03:49Para magkaroon kami ng idea kung paano tayo atake ng sagayon.
03:55Magkaroon tayo ng batas at ngipin na tuloy-tuloy ma-prosecute nga.
03:59Tama kayo itong mga perpetrators, human trafficking.
04:03Kahit na nag-widdo na or nakipag-areglo itong mga victims,
04:07tama siguro pwedeng ipagpatuloy ng IACAT.
04:16Thank you so much for watching.
04:17Tama kayo itong kong ipagpatuloy ma-prosecute nga.
04:20You
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