President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Wednesday, May 2, said he will not reconsider the deportation order against Australian missionary Patricia Fox.
The Bureau of Immigration’s (BI) board of commissioners forfeited the missionary visa of Ms. Fox on April 23 and ordered her to leave within 30 days.
The BI said Ms. Fox was “found to have engaged in activities that are not allowed under the terms and conditions of her visa.”
“Anybody can criticize me except for foreigners,” Mr. Duterte said in his speech in San Francisco, Quezon.
The President said some individuals from San Beda University (formerly known as San Beda College) had asked him to “reconsider” the BI’s order against the Australian nun.
“Sabi nila mga taga-San Beda, aregluhin yung madre. Huh, maraming madre diyan (They asked if the nun’s situation can be resolved. Huh? There are many nuns out there.),” the President said.
Mr. Duterte obtained his law degree in 1972 from San Beda College of Law.
The President was in San Francisco, Quezon on Wednesday to lead the distribution of 387 Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOAs) to at least 389 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) of Hacienda Matias. — Arjay L. Balinbin

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