EVEN while public attention and government priorities are currently dominated by the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, we would like to direct some attention to the abrupt and escalating return home of thousands of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and what the government proposes to do about their plight.

Last Saturday, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs, the number of repatriated OFWs breached the 29,000 mark.

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