Crazy like a fox.
He’s safe.
Nobody is going to take him up on the offer, and he gets to morally preen for free.
None of those refugees want to go to a third-world place like the Philippines.
Heck, that whole problem with people camping in Calais, France, trying to sneak into Britain is because they don’t like FRANCE, because there actually are paying jobs in Britain.
Exactly.
That is the way I read his offer also. He is able to make some magnanimous comment, knowing that no one will take him up on it. There is not the social welfare, nor job opportunities, to make the Philippines an attractive destination for people leaving their own countries. Duterte scores some cheap Social Justice Warrior points, without any cost.