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Did Duterte know Yasay was most probably NOT a Filipino citizen when he REAPPOINTED him THRICE as foreign secretary?

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By Raïssa Robles

The rejection of Perfecto Yasay as foreign secretary could raise questions about President Rodrigo Duterte’s hand in trying to push the appointment to chief envoy of someone who is most probably not a Filipino.

Juliet Labog-Javellana’s report dated February 27, 2017 clearly showed that Yasay only lost his American citizenship last year –  on June 28, 2016. The government has not produced any document, and neither has Yasay for that matter, that he has reacquired his Philippine citizenship since then. An appointment to a government position is not proof of reacquisition.

Did he tell his former college roommate Duterte about his citizenship status?

And if he did, what did Duterte say or advise him to do?

An ordinary person may be forgiven for not knowing immigration and citizenship laws, especially those of the United States.

But not Perfecto Yasay.

According to a report by Interaksyon’s Camille A. Aguinaldo, Yasay’s work as a lawyer in the United States included handling immigration cases. Aguinaldo wrote that:

“He represented Filipinos in deportation and de-naturalization cases in the United States. He also hosted a radio show in New York, giving legal advice to its listeners and served as visiting professor of law at the University of Hawaii’s Richardson School of Law.”

This means, Yasay knew when an American citizen ceased being an American and how a Filipino reacquires Philippine citizenship.

Javellana’s article showed an affidavit that Yasay said he wrote back in 1993 when he swore that he had already renounced his citizenship earlier. The funny thing with that affidavit is that it has no official stamp that it was received by any US government agency.

Yasay said he had sent it by registered mail. Yasay must have known that this registered mail thing wasn’t legally valid because he had followed it up by formally filing a renunciation of his American citizenship before an American consul in Manila. Only last June 2016.

Did he tell Duterte about this? In 1993 – the year Yasay wrote an affidavit about his renunciation – there was no such thing as a dual US-Filipino citizenship, except for those lucky Filipinos born in the US of a Filipino mother or father, or anywhere else of an American father and Filipino mother.

So in 1993, after Yasay wrote that affidavit, did he reacquire his Filipino citizenship?

Yasay will have to show proof that he did because in 1995, President Fidel V. Ramos appointed him associate commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He could not have been appointed to that post if he was not a Filipino citizen.

Then in 1996 Ramos appointed Yasay SEC chair.

Later, Yasay ran for senator in 2001 and 2004. A senator is an elective position reserved for Filipinos ONLY.

On October 20, 2016, Duterte had to reappoint Yasay ad-interim as foreign secretary because Congress took a break. All presidential appointments that have to be confirmed by the bicameral Commission on Appointments lapse whenever Congress takes a break.

On October 22, 2016, someone asked me whether Yasay had a green card or was a dual citizen. I mentioned this in the following post –

Pssst, Duterte supporters, US and EU consular officials can read your FB, Twitter posts dissing their countries

Pssst, Duterte supporters, US and EU consular officials can read your FB, Twitter posts dissing their countries

This became a hot topic on Facebook. By then, Malacañang Palace would have been alerted and we could reasonably assume that someone would have done a due diligence on Yasay, or Duterte himself would have asked Yasay about it.

But when Yasay’s appointment lapsed again in January, Duterte again reappointed him – FOR THE THIRD TIME.

The last administration was severely castigated for appointing mga kaklase (classmates) at kabarilan (shooting mates). Should we now suspend such outrage because it’s a different administration?

The oath of every Philippine president includes a solemn promise to “execute its laws”, including its citizenship laws.

Which is why it is important to determine – at what point did President Duterte know or was told that Yasay’s appointment most probably violated Philippine laws? And if Duterte knew this at any time before he reappointed Yasay THRICE, can Duterte be accused of a cover-up?

Which also raises other very interesting questions: If Yasay cannot show proof of reacquisition of Philippine citizenship, can he be deported?

If he shows he did reacquire just before Duterte appointed him, can he be sued for violating passport, election and civil service commission laws? And for masquerading as a citizen all these years?

Comments

  1. Is it true that Senator Cayetano is Stateless? His neither Filipino nor American citizen.

  2. oot: chinese vessel spotted on benham rise.
    http://globalnation.inquirer.net/153204/lorenzana-chinese-survey-ship-spotted-benham-rise

    for what?
    http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/09/17/chinese-survey-ship-spotted-in-benham-rise-says-defense-chief

    china: we are only exercising our right to freedom of navigation. wow.
    passage took them several days? wiyh a survey ship?

    china: ph cannot claim benham rise as theirs.

    bduts: let us not fight china at this time…wow.

    trivia:
    magellan sent notice to an island chieftain, “surrender or i will conquer your land”
    the chieftain replied: “i will not surrender. i am not yet prepared for now, give me until dawn so i can get ready to fight”
    the rest is history.
    that chieftain was Lapu-lapu.

  3. “Tsunami” economy is going to hit the Philippines by the end of the year.

    While Duterte is focused on his drug war which has outlasted its effectiveness, growth of Philippine economy is left unsolved by Duts. Goods will start to be priced higher as early as late March. Petroleum and liquified gas price continues to rise despite lower oil price in international market.

    Trump’s aggressive action to improve US safety and improve its economy will directly affect the Philippines:
    1.Crackdown on illegal aliens in the US with Filipino TNT in millions will be losing their source of income resulting to decrease in dollar remittance. This is already happening since many TNTs are already saving thier money to pay immigration lawyers.

    2.Trump’s quest to protect American economy includes a crackdown of reducing identity theft of Americans. Target of his administration is to tighten the regulations on call centers with unlimited access to personal data of Americans. Call centers abroad will be required to identify their locations to american consumers dealing with them. After identification of location, whether it’s the Philippines, India, China, Australia or other countries consumer will have the option to be transferred to a call center based in U.S. to talk to an American call center agent who better can explain clearly to the consumer the intricacies of the problems sought by the consumer. If this happens, BPO Centers will start relocating to US to service their US corporate clients. The new regulation is expected to be issued by 2nd quarter of the year.

    16 million voters elected Duterte to act as president but so far his mental instinct is local mayor.
    Filipinos, When are you going to wake up? When “tsunami” is wreaking havoc!

    He he he

    • ‘He he he’…mine is ‘Huh huh huh’. Gloomy dark days & nights ahead!

      Hindi pang national league porke pang lokal.

      10,000 killings expected Opr Tokhang. Sigue…tuloy patayin ang mga addicts rather than rehabs. No illegal drugs syndicates have been slain yet. Postura lang siguro. Yun mga small adddicts lang puede patayan. They can’t complain much.

      They’re coming home the TNTs in USA. How many? O.k. half-a-million of them. Does this country have jobs for them?

      The boiling pot is steaming heat. Wait lang. Kung si Marcos talsik. . .sino pa ay hindi susunod tatalsik?

      Lesson in history: Bad will be rejected in the final run of things.

    • A lot of those from the BPO industry in the Phils belong to the 16M who voted the mayor president who in turn will be instrumental on having their jobs taken away from them.

      • at pag ang industriyang iyan ay tuluyan nang naialis sa bansa, pustahan tayo, isisisi nila yan sa dilawan.
        kahit dumarami na sa kanila ang duguan, maaaring hindi pa rin nila agad ma-realize na may epidemya nang dumating…

        • Too blinded na or ma pride pa rin sila. I knew some of them, most are intellectuals. They will be hit really hard.

        • I’ve come across intellectuals who have no backbones. some are opportunistic and parasitic and they’ll egg you to fight their battle for them, pat you on the back too, good man. and then, when the battle is lost, they’ll blame you, bruised and battered and badly shaken. habang sila, no skin off their noses, happy and healthy and ready to egg another in your place.

        • if hit hard, true intellectuals recover quickly, asses their loses and plan their next move.

        • Egging to fight intellectuals’ battles’ …who are these fighters?

          Soldiers and policemen, are first in the battle fronts.

          Their plights in life in like that. They are the first to suffer if not die in the fights.

          Come wrongs and no right, they are ordered to it. Kaya, sila lang ang gagawa ng mutiny or coup de tat.

          Military rule follows. Why allow a civilian to mix with them?

          The problem is no soldier or cop knows how to run the state government.

          Soldiers and cops should not follow blindly illegal orders of civilian leaders. They have their role to play.

          Rule of law and the Constitution. Protect the PEOPLE.

        • leona, darl, true na at the front line silang mga kapolisan at military, but sorry to say this: they are not there stumbling blindly. may intel sila, may mga gizmos sila and have scouts and reconnaissance to the extent that they knew their terrain as well as they knew the backs of their own hands. they got eyes in the dark and ears on the wall.

          and if they so desire, they can bring down a govt, form an interim govt in the meantime until a civilian leader is found.

          there is military court for erring soldiers, I’ve heard of court martial but not sure about its role. dishonorable dismissal, that’s a soldier’s nightmare, be stripped of rank and whatnot.

          I believe polis and soldiers have transferable skills, if they’re good in managing polis and military businesses and affairs, they can manage a nation. their is stark difference though, but nothing is impossible for one willing to learn, be they man or woman.

          some politicians have military background.

    • My comeback;

      https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/world/asia/park-geun-hye-impeached-south-korea.html?_r=0

      What are the PINOYS waiting for? For Imee to come back inching herself in perpetual POWER? Again?

      PLS, PACK THAT SH__IT, that billion dollar drooling killer president.
      P A C K T H A T $ H I _TT ( sorry its QUEBOCOIS FRENCH) :)

      I know you get it except for the 16 million, or thousands na lang sila ngayon.

      Kasi si USON, im- PERFECTO stink now, Pokyaw is the new AntiChrist of the PH, while Gloria and Imelda are the new anti DEATH fallen angels of the house. :)
      How can the country be so lucky to get a bunch like this?

      Ps to Raissa: Would it costs too much to have a preview button on threads on this site? Thanks , just a thought.

      • At the end of the day, all of this chaos is nothing to what lies ahead. I’ve been saying previously these mundane things, ie; riches, wealth, citizenship and political fights would be trivial for what the world is destined to.

        Believe it or not; everybody would bend their knees in sorrow, for the bloodiest is YET TO COME , not the Duterte show but something else.
        Don’t you think time is running out? Time is not linear, IT IS RELATIVE , IT IS FLEXIBLE, it is TIMELESS, anomalies happen and things happen for a reason and those who Have Eyes to See and Ears to Hear understand.

        What do you think the Chinese are preparing for? Fishing ? NAH!

        I hope you listen and pay attention, ignore these sinful leaders for they are drawing their paths and running their 15 minutes show. The world is a stage.
        Their egos are so bloated that they think and feel indestructible.

        QUOTE:
        “The Darkness doesn’t have to happen (EMP? ). If humans get their shit together it doesn’t have to happen. World War 3 comes first. Use that war to get shit right this time.

        • @netty, is that a quote from David Icke, Dr. Steven Greer, Zechariah Sichin, Bob Lazar? I don’t think it came from Dr Michael S. Heiser.

          Share some links that I may know where you are coming from.

        • @MEL, suffice it to say that he is a man with tremendous gift of remote viewing and having his third eye. Can’t divulge his name in public forum.
          He became my friend and he is a busy man making and giving warning and curbing re: human trafficking, child sex abuse.

          Read power outages in Sudan New York, STATUE of Liberty lights out.

          ://sudantribune.com/spip.php?article61754

          I am allowed to share his visions and quotes of what’s to happen for people to be aware out of the mundane troubles of their ordinary life but also pay attention to their spiritual and conscious awareness.

          Truth IS STRANGER THAN FICTION is a believable saying, we live in a bubble and this is all a show. Just live life simply but do not get attach to any material things.

          OUR CIVILIZATION IS THE LAST OF OUR TIME, DEPENDING ON OUR DISPOSITION.

          To date he said to me: How the f ( d030) he got elected?
          He is insane. (no doubt about that)

          I would just drop his views and share his visions every now and then.

          Here’s one which is the biggest.

          ‘”Afterlife consequences should have no bearing on decisions you make HERE. Paradigm shift in thought: When you die all that remains is the good or bad effects you had on this world so make the difference NOW.”

          PEACE TO ALL.

  4. I think Do30 knows about Yasay’s citizenship … He actually has plan to give the position to Alan Cayatano even before…

    • Mr. Yasay’s status was on RECORD. Not a secret. So, who was anybody not knowing that? Do30? Fidel R.?

      Gross recklessness is it.

      They all knew. Na buking lang sa sobra baho…hindi maamoy talaga!

      Ganoon ha?

    • digong should set an example and be fair to all, criminals and laypersons alike. if cigarette tariff is 1.5billion, then it’s 1.5billion, nothing more, nothing less. he should not overcharge, overprice and extort money from mighty corp. gawain yang extortion ng dating close friend and ally niyang npa, digong must lift his game and do better, be fair and equitable to all kahit ayaw niya. that’s what being president is all about.

      3billion to build hospitals, what guarantee digong has mighty corp will not present him with overpriced and substandard hospitals? already mighty corp had shown it cannot be trusted, nameke ng selyo. kung kayang mameke ng selyo, e di kaya rin yang mameke ng chop chop hospitals. and then, back to business na naman ang mighty corp, back to making pekeng seals.

      • From BIR…jail the Chinese please……

        4) Selling or offering for sale any box
        Fine of not less than P20,000 but not
        or package containing articles subject
        more than P50,000 and imprisonment
        to excise tax with false, spurious or
        for not less than 4 years
        counterfeit stamps or labels or sells
        but not more than 8 years
        from any such fraudulent box, package,
        or container as aforesaid.

      • Reprieve, pardon, amnesty, compromise for the criminal rich. Slaughter for the poor, whether criminal or innocent.

    • Leave the collection to appropriate gov’t agencies like BIR, DOJ atbpa.

      Awkward presidente ng Bansa asking such a thing…money payment! Sobra ang hirit talaga.

      Ganoon ha?

      • Money payment kasi ang mode of transactions niya since mayor pa siya. That’s how he got billions deposited in his bank accounts.

        • also, the dates of deposit of monies in the bank are to coincide with digong’s birthday. the conniving sods have figured it out. monies gifted to him kuno on his birthdays kaya bihirang may habol dyan ang taumbayan. apparently, he has many rich friends willing to give him money. buying favors, more like.

          nuon, nagbigay daw ng perang regalo yang mighty corp kaso, sinauli, e. hindi yata sapat. president na si digong ngayon, dapat mas malaki ang lagay.

        • Does anybody know who is secretly the richest guy in this world?

          Sa Russia ka mag tanong…si Putsin…a trillion dolyars !

          Malayo ang Peso x P50 pa!

        • pasensya na po, leona, little brown brother from dabaw can only be richest in his own domain, natutulong daw yan under a humble kolambo, he, he, he, maybe the threads of the humble kolambo are made of molten silver and filigree of gold.

          though there are few little brown brothers of mixed origins that made it to the list of 100 richest men in the world, the sys, ayalas, zobels, etc.

  6. Digong’s minions could have railroaded Yasay’s confirmation if not for the alert and vigilant media particularly Rappler and followed by the relentless Congresswoman Ramirez-Sato.
    It looks like Digong is also throwing Gina Lopez’ under the bus with his halfhearted “try to listen to her” appeal to the CA. It should be remembered that Dominguez, his mining relatives, friends and associates were important financing components of the 16 million idiots. Zamora is a mining surrogate of his brother Manuel and so is Paquiao (Chavit Singson’s Satrap).

    • they’re killing the mountains, sabi ni gina lopez. them mountain killers have already made gazillions of money, surely they can now afford to rehab the mountains instead of attacking and looking for more mountains to kill. so much greed, and what for? they cannot take it with them when they die. too much wealth tend to make their children less motivated, lazy and indifferent, their lives already catered for many times over. what is there left for them to do except experiment on drugs? they can all buy fake diplomas to hang in their sala walls, thumb their noses on poor people and perpetuate the sins of their fathers.

      com on appts should confirm gina’s appointment. she’ll allow mining but only the responsible ones and those that are mindful of the environment. barumbado miners and staunch mountain killers need not apply. not unless they change their old ways and adapt new ways of looking after the environment, make it sustenable for generations to come.

      marami kuno ang mawawalan ng trabaho. well, there is plenty jobs rehabilitating the mountains na naghihingalo na. it’s an ongoing job to keep mountains alive and healthy again, our waters clean again. not dirty and poisonous and hazardous to health.

      • digong should pull his head from the sand, sure he’s reeling from yasay’s fiasco, but he knew this was coming. he has sound intel. he already lose yasay, he must not lose gina lopez.

        dont cry for yasay, argentina, waste of tears yan. save what can be saved.

        • Taking into consideration how Duts reversed several of Gina’s high profile mining bans, wouldn’t it be safe to assume that he’s more than inclined to throw the environment secretary under the bus if the profits of his mining oligarchs and allies are under threat?

          His lukewarm endorsement of her on the CA doesn’t inspire much confidence either.

        • I dont believe digong’s oligarch friends will lose much. their monies are already in banks and earning high interests, some are invested in stocks, properties and trusts, at meron pa silang diversified economic portfolio. they also have insurance that cover loss of income, etc.

          I think, their pride wont let them back down and lose face to newbie and lone woman: gina lopez. but they’ll surely lose more than face if digong got pushed out of office, shoved because people are getting sick and tired of his management style.

    • The winds will tell or is telling Sec. Gina Lopez will be thrown under the bus!

      As usual: when someone is good in her/his job elimination is the next improper move. Ingit comes in.

      Watch out our mountains! It will all be gone soon.

      G. Lopez has money. When bus ran her down in the mountain, will she stand up and run for president in Yr 2022? Against Bong2 and/or Manny Pacquiao?

      Or becoming the P earlier than that?

      Ganoon ba?

      • consider her bypassed, sabi ni lacson. I dont want you to have yasay’s fate, sabi rin ni lacson. really, if lacson does not want lopez to have yasay’s fate he would have ensured it is so.

  7. Ito yung katotohanan sa ating buhay

    Sabi ni Lacson, Pakyao at Grace poe .. tsk tsk ibang klase ang mga ito… Garapalan sa paglibre sa pangulong siraulo.. Ang lumalantad na krimen pinipilit wakasan Ng alipores ng pangulong namamaho sa patayan..

    Sige lang sige pa mga bata ni duterte Pagtakpan,ikulong tumutuligsa sa Butete Sige lang sige pa babuyin nyo ang bayan Ilibre ang mga korap, patayin ang walang sandalan… Sige lang sige pa kaban ng bayan nakawin nyo Ipasok na si Bongbong, free Napoles at brods nyo…

    Sa katarantaduhan ninyo Sige lang sige pa magsawa ng walang humpay Hehehe, tutal sabi nga ng tatlo Ito yung katotohanan sa ating buhay..

  8. It’s par for the course for Duts.

    His rise to power is based upon a foundation of deception – Numbeo, his SALN, his wives and their businesses and properties, his close Chinese ties, his campaign being bankrolled by the Marcoses and his own set of oligarchs, the DDS, the PNP murders, etc. He got away with all of it. His followers lapped it all up. Surely he won’t mind telling the country another lie just to further his stranglehold on the reins of government.

    • Yes, I totally agree with you – his lies, his trolls, etc.

      The problem though are the Filipino voters – during the campaign period, he was affront of what he has done and of what he will do – replicate the Davao formula all over the country; bury Marcos; free Gloria; federalism, etc. – YET, Filipinos lapped it all up; i mean, the 16Million voters elected him to office and still are cheering him on…

      It’s time to check on our fellow Filipinos and NOT just on the president… We need a total re-awakening from our deep slumber and believe in the truth, for once.

      • Mahirap gisingin ang nagtutulug tulugan.

        Too many of his supporters have invested too much in his presidency. It’s cultish fanaticism. Parang yung pagkapanatiko ng mga pinoy sa Ginebra or Aldub – kahit wala na sa lugar minsan, eh todo suporta pa rin. Sobrang tindi ng emotional investment eh they seem to be willing to bend time and space to accommodate his madness.

        Are you sure we’re not the ones deluding ourselves with the notion that the Filipinos are actually decent? Di kaya ngayon lang tayo nagigising sa katotohanan na karamihan sa bansa mas sumusuporta pa rin sa presidenteng mamamatay tao?

        I hope I’m wrong.

      • Sumisikip ang hangin sa loob ng balloon.

        Yan ang mga Filipino. Tapos PUPUTOK ang balloon. Sabog!

        Sigue! Puno-in pa nga hangin. Ganoon ba?

  9. Mr. PERFECT(o) Yasay is a citizen of his crash thoughts!

    Foreign indeed!

    . . . reappointed THRICE and not confirmed ONCE! I’m sure Adm knew his status…& na buking!

    :-)

    • imperfecto siya. sabi pa niyan pinoys are no longer america’s little brown brothers. e, sino ngayon ang little brown brothers, abir, mr imperfecto?

      america has failed us! wailed imperfecto yasay at some time in the immediate past. dyos ko, sobrang mapagkunwari ang nagkukunwaring little brown brother na ito. natamaan ng husto. well, well, well, maybe imperfecto wants to return his ill gotten pay gotten on false pretenses? 8 months siyang nangpanggap, ngayon lumabas na ka-son of a bitch pala siya sa dating potus. kabaro pala siya sa mga taong inuusig ni digong for masakering tausugs and moros in mindanaw a century ago.

      (im)perfecto yasay got caught big time. mayhap, he was american spy tailing digong.

      • He can start PRAYING these days that the Ombudsman is quite and will not run after him…for such dastardly acts by holding gov’t offices despite no qualifications.

        Or disbarment too. A man without a country.

        Ganoon ba?

        • Perfecto Yasay, a foreigner?

          Naloko ang bansang pilipinas, ang sambayanang pilipino dahil sa principal sponsor niya na si PDU30.

          A gov’t err ex gov’t official who is not even a Philippines citizen. Not within the jurisdiction of the Phils’. Ombudsman alas. And DOJ Sec Aguirre is silent, seems disinterested to investigate Perfecto Yasay’s fraudulent claims for so many years. It is PDU30’s mistake, big time! Parehong con artists. What face can DU30 present to ASEAN member nations this year, being its chair for this season, whose appointee was caught out for lying about his citizenship.

          Remember, the media questioned Perfecto Yasay’s demeanor when the Permanent Court of Arbitration rendered its judgement in favor of the Philippines? Him, still being a US Citizen should have shown excitement and enthusiasm, rather he showed displeasure instead. Makes you wonder, he is foreign to Philippines’ expectations.

      • Can you also renew citizenships?

        DFA: Yasay’s passport renewal not an ordinary case

        DFA spokesperson Charles Jose confirmed the DFA decided to “hold” former DFA Secretary Perfecto Yasay’s application to renew his passport pending the result of the agency’s investigation on his citizenship.

        Yasay’s passport is set to expire in 2018.

        Last week, the Commission on Appointments (CA) rejected Yasay’s appointment over concerns on his citizenship.

        “Kasi hindi siya ordinary case no? Alam naman natin na katatapos lang ng confirmation hearing ng CA and precisely, yun ang issue levelled at him. Yung issue of his citizenship and alam din natin na Philippine passports should only be issued to Filipino citizens,” Jose said.

        http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/13/17/dfa-yasays-passport-renewal-not-an-ordinary-case

    • Just out of curiosity, if Yasay renounced his US citizenship, yet he was not a dual citizen before that, what then is his citizenship now?

        • Paddle Law…Mr. PY guilty…give him a banca paddle to Benham Rise…he looks Chinese, they know and will welcome him.

          . . . row row ur banca gently down the stream miserly miserly I’m paddling down into a bad dream !

          AHOY !

        • may mga anak si yasay na american citizens and living in america, they can surely sponsor him. babalik yan sa america like a doggie with tailie between his leggie.

      • He can file with the UN agency as a refugee.

        UN agency can ask him: ‘How did you lose your citizenship Mr. Yasay?’

        Answer: ‘Because I utot that I cannot lose it !’

        Ganoon ha!

        • yasay is immigration lawyer and expert in anything migratory, birds included, he, he, he. canadian geese, they have no respect for international borders much like yasay. geessie birds go anywhere they like, harass other birds and sometimes, they downed airplanes. only this time, cross bordering geesie yasay downed himself. final shot done by little brown brothers.

      • If you renounce your citizenship and become stateless, where would you be deported to?
        https://www.quora.com/If-you-renounce-your-citizenship-and-become-stateless-where-would-you-be-deported-to

        – de-port [back] for lack of approved visa to be with PI, including deportation back to the United States.

        A con [liar], ‘Snake Oil Salesman’, a top honcho Foreign Affairs Secretary of a nation he misrepresented before many nations, appointed because he once was a dorm mate of a drug (i.e. fentanyl) addicted president of a deceived nation … who voted him into power because he was a good joker in his for election campaigns … with promises to rid of his nation of illegal drug addicts by extra-judicial methods.

        pfffYASawAY? Is he now a refugee since his US Citizenship renunciation became official? No show cause for him to prove that he is indeed a legal filipino citizen to date.

  10. dapat yata magsagawa ng due diligence sa lahat ng ating mga opisyales.
    baka may ilan pang nakapagpalusot sa mga iyan

      • hahaha.
        sana nga ay delihendya lang.
        kasi pang-meryenda lang yan.
        e dekwat na talaga ang gusto ng ibang napupwesto.
        madekwat ang lahat ng budget na hawak niya…

  11. It’s a good thing Yasay was not confirmed. He lied on his citizenship and callously assumed as secretary of foreign affairs. Had he got the confirmation we will have a foreign policy full of lies.

    • Just imagine…a minister or secretary of foreign affairs who is actually a stateless person!

      . . . so far, ONLi in ‘Pinas yan!

      Ganoon ba?

  12. With the much-publicized question about Grace Poe’s former U.S. citizenship one would imagine that our political leaders would be sensitive on this issue, and would learn their lesson from Grace’s predicament.

    That fact that Perfecto Yasay still tried to cover-up and get away with the issue of his U.S. citizenship only shows that the Duterte administration has little respect for our laws, and will try to circumvent the law if it could.

    Yasay was likely banking on his knowledge of U.S. immigration laws providing strict confidentiality to immigration records to cover-up his U.S. citizenship. But he probably did not keep abreast of changes in U.S. immigration law and, unfortunately for him, the confidentiality surrounding the loss of U.S. citizenship was removed and the matter become public records starting in 1996 with the quarterly publication of the Federal Register listing the names of persons who relinquished their U.S. citizenship. Alan Peter Cayetano, Grace Poe Llamanzares, and Perfecto Yasay are among the persons whose names appeared in an issue of the Federal Register.

    It is the same quarterly Federal Register that brought into public awareness Grace Poe’s official renunciation of her U.S. citizenship as publicized for the first time in Raissa’s blog site.

    And in spite of Grace Poe’s much publicized pronouncement shortly before the last presidential election that her husband Neil Llamanzares already renounced his U.S. citizenship, his name is yet to show up in the Federal Register – meaning, he is likely still a U.S. citizen.

      • yeheey taga taguig na po kami! itong ilonggong AJ ay binigay nya kami sa taguig sa tuta ni du30 at inilayo sa mga beenay

      • Alan Peter Cayetano relinquished his U.S. citizenship 1998, the year he ran for a seat in our Congress (House of Representatives).

        His name was publicized in the Federal Register in its Q1 1999 issue.

        • Also Orlan Calayag, (National Food Authority) relinquished his U.S. citizenship in 2012 and his name was publicized in Q1 2013.

        • If your info is correct, is APC a Philippines citizen?

          If not, is he a legit Senator of The Philippines?

          If yes [re Federal Register in its Q1 1999], how did he become one when dual citizens (to include Philippine Citizenship) was made possible only by Republic Act No. 9225 after August 29, 2003?

          Musings

          Is APC still interested to become Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines in light of Yasay’s disqualification? CA might also pry into timeline details of his citizenship history.

          Is Perfecto Yasay’s reckoning lining up for A P Cayetano? PY tried to be a Senator, ran for VP … APC not only made it as a Rep, also as a Sen, now waiting for a ‘promised’ DFA Secretary ad interim appointment after a ‘cooling off’ period. Will he make it pass CA? APC’s House of Cards might just collapse like Perfecto’s.

        • Wala pang sagot …

          Eto, mula kay PDU30 –

          Naging bato pa! Duterte says Cayetano better off in Senate; he’s happy with acting DFA Secretary

          President Rdorigo Duterte declared that Senator Alan Peter Cayetano, his losing running mate in the 2016 elections, is better off staying in the Senate.

          Duterte’s announcement comes just days after his former dorm-mate, Jun Yasay, was rejected by the Commission on Appointments and just two months before the end of the one-year ban on appointing election losers.

          “He (Cayetano) is a brilliant man, he will be needed by the Senate. Huwag ninyo walain yan,” said Duterte in a press conference in Malacanang Monday.

          Although he has yet to talk to Cayetano, Duterte said he was fine with having a Foreign Affairs Secretary on an acting basis.

          Duterte recently appointed Enrque Manalo as acting Foreign Affairs Secretary.

          – http://politics.com.ph/naging-bato-pa-duterte-says-cayetano-better-off-senate-hes-happy-acting-dfa-secretary/

          Meron din naman atang mambabasa dito mula sa administrasyong Duterte.

          Pinangungunahan na niya si APC ng kahihiyan.

        • mel, dito sa gmanetwork may kaunting dagdag:
          “Senator Cayetano is a very brilliant man. He would be needed by the Senate. Huwag mo walain iyan. Puwede naman acting acting,” he added.
          – See more at: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/603038/news/nation/duterte-backtracks-on-dfa-post-for-cayetano-he-s-needed-in-the-senate#sthash.LBbZn6FL.dpuf

          ayan APC hindi kayo puedeng alisin sa senate kasi sayang na din ang isang boto o mag second the motion kay pakyaw to make the position vacant. kailangang kailangan ka sa butuhan sa senate dahil “puede naman acting acting” nimo sa iyong mga press release at privilege speeches

        • heh he heh

          ‘acting acting’

          mahusay talagang mag joke si digong.

          mabola, paiikutin ang mundo ng mga mang-mang.

        • ganito kamahal ni du30 si apc kasi ayaw nyang magiging py the second. mayroon ba silang alamnsa citizenship ni apc na hindi alam ng mga ordinaryong mamamayan? dinadaan lang nila sa joke joke at the end of the day… “and the joke was on them”

        • According to the complaint filed by former Pateros Mayor Jose Capco, Jr, Cayetano’s parents obtained an Alien Certificate of Registration (ACR) for him on March 18, 1976, indicating that he was an American citizen.
          Capco obtained a further record, which revealed that on January 23, 1985 Cayetano personally applied for and was granted a new ACR, where Cayetano affirmed his intention to be a citizen of the United States of America.
          According to Capco, when Cayetano campaigned for municipal councilor of Taguig in the 1992 elections, he produced an Identification Certificate, BC-1295, from the Philippine Bureau of Immigration that he was a Philippine citizen. But Capco said this identification certificate was apparently bogus and “has never been affirmed by the secretary of justice” as required by the law.
          Capco’s complaint never made it to the Philippine Supreme Court, and it is unclear as to what ever became of his accusation. But Cayetano has also never challenged his inclusion in the US Federal Register as having only formally relinquished his US citizenship in 1999.

          Read more: http://usa.inquirer.net/2197/sen-alan-peter-cayetano-ph-citizen#ixzz4bQWEzZ8e

    • Congress can amend our Dual Citizenship Law by allowing stateless persons to be appointed in our gov’t offices or even being elected to gov’t posts !

      Just like what LH is doing….death penalty for ONLY in the crime of illegal drugs. And ONLi drug addicts are sentenced to death.

      Assuming that bill will pass in the Senate. Or it will pass at the Supreme Court.

      Ganoon ba?

      • sana gumawa sila ng batas na lahat ng plunderers na nakadekwat ng 50M pataas ay automatic nang shortlisted sa mga appointive government offices.
        bawal ang may merit at good credentials.
        a trending norm in phl governance…pwe…

        • Demerits are the norms in our political days here.

          The more corrupt the more elected and/or appointed to so many of them.

          Sample: PYasay – stateless and liar.

          :-(

  14. Yasay got away with pretending to be a Filipino Citizen so many times that it’s a miracle of sorts he got caught lying under oath this time around. I hope that his actions will at least lead to his disbarment, if not conviction for breaking both Philippine and American Citizenship laws.