First, they are asking our Congressman Gregorio Kilili Sablan to help “freeze deportation” of illegal overstayers until they get all their back wages and all the items in their Labor awards are fulfilled, including the granting of employment transfers.
Our challenge is this: If our government came up with approximately almost $ 6 million in unpaid labor awards will these overstayers return to their homeland? This is what they are bargaining and complaining about, completely ignoring that the federal government has already addressed this matter in which all three of them were present at the announcement back in March.
As for job transfers, we believe that the Department of Labor has been authorizing transfers since the amendments to Public Law 15-108 were made.
We believe their complaints of job transfers are without merits since they now claim amnesty for overstayers in the CNMI. How is it possible to ask for transfer when one has overstayed?
This is why we continue to say that these foreign organizations are misleading and giving false hopes to innocent nonresident guest workers in the CNMI, including IR’s.
No one wants to admit that because of such misleading information and promises, a majority of the innocent guest workers are now affected.
TAOTAO TANO firmly believes that if anyone has lived here 10, 15, 20 years then there really shouldn’t be any problems going to the federal immigration administrative process.
GREGORIO CRUZ JR.
Taotao Tano
