– AFP
IT is bad enough that many countries around the world – through strict visa regimes and discriminatory border controls – are restricting our right to travel. But what makes it worse is that our own country is also holding us back. This is the message we Filipinos get from the recent reports of some being intensively interrogated by our own immigration officers – to the point of being asked to show one’s yearbook. Regardless of how common such an incident is, its virality meant that it resonated with many Filipinos – if not with their experiences, then their anxieties.
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