THE recent controversial issue of the demand of the United States for the Philippines to temporarily host around 50,000 Afghan 'refugees' while their US immigration applications, particularly the special immigrant visas (SIV), are being processed has created a buzz in the Philippines to the point that the Philippine Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, chaired by Sen. Maria Imelda 'Imee' Marcos, the sister of the incumbent President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., was launched last Friday, June 16, to look into the matter and shed light on the request from the superpower.

To note, Senator Marcos filed a resolution seeking an inquiry into the plan and questioned the Presidential Management Staff's (PMS's) decision to keep the 'technical coordination meeting' results from the public.