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                    [Summary] => WASHINGTON – Filipino-Americans account for more than half of the foreign exchange that the Philippines receives annually from its overseas workers but lack the political clout to match their economic muscle.  


From a handful of Filipinos who first arrived to work in the sugarcane fields of Hawaii 100 years ago, the community has grown to some 2.5 million, most of them naturalized US citizens or permanent residents. In addition there are about 200,000 illegal Filipino workers.

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"Now you don’t have to beg. You deserve it and you’re going to get it. We’re on the verge of victory," the congressman from San Diego told a meeting of veterans leaders at the Philippine embassy in Washington on Wednesday. 
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