18K Undocumented Filipinos Flew Home in '09

Sep 02, 2010

More than 18,000 undocumented Filipinos in the United States voluntarily went home last year, avoiding possible detention and deportation.

According to latest statistics from the Department Homeland Security (DHS), Filipinos ranked third among aliens who opted to return to their homelands in the face of a growing U.S. crackdown on illegal immigrants and the slow recovery of the American economy from its worst recession since the Great Depression.

Most of these undocumented Filipinos — also called TNTs (Tago ng Tago), loosely translated as “always hidingâ€