Posted on 12/27/2019 4:11:16 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Philippines has banned two U.S. Senators from visiting the country and may impose more restrictions on American citizens over the detention of a leading critic of President Rodrigo Duterte.
“We will not sit idly if they continue to interfere with our processes as a sovereign state,” Philippine presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo said, according to a transcript of a press conference provided by the government.
Panelo said Duterte ordered the Bureau of Immigration to deny Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), from entering the country.
The government is protesting a provision included in a spending package passed by Congress last week, which denies entry to officials involved in the detainment of Philippine Senator Leila de Lima, according to Reuters.
De Lima, who has been a critic of Duterte’s anti-drug campaign, was detained in 2017. She has called for an international investigation into Duterte’s war on drugs, where thousands of people have been killed.
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Holy crap, what is that on Leahy’s head, Herpes outbreak?
Maybe (I wish) he would take them up for a helicopter ride and give them the same “sightseeing tour” that he does for drug gangs and terrorists...
It is unfortunate, because the Philippines needs he tourist bucks, but nothing exemplifies the ugly American stereotype than liberals who think they can go into a foreign country and tell the locals how to live their life.
No; don’t just keep them, give them a democrat congress type trial and hang them as drug runners!
(you know they are).
I truly LOL!
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