Wait lang – or run for your life?

Following Donald Trump’s surprising – not really so surprising, come to think of it – landslide win, people are wringing their hands wondering what four more years of MAGA will mean for them personally, for the country, for the world.

Trump said a lot of things during the campaign, a lot of bluster and brimstone, like the greatest mass deportation in history, getting back at his critics and at journalists…

All the TNT immigrants – not just Pinoys but all illegals – would I guess have reason to be worried. Our ambassador to DC has some good advice for Pinoy TNTs – leave before you’re deported. That may be the end of your American dream, but better that than being raided and arrested by ICE and forcibly put on a plane, probably in handcuffs? 

For the rest of the non-MAGAs – the legal ones, at least – there’s really nothing to do but wait and see how Trump 2.0 plays out. For us here in Pinas, it’s the same thing…wait lang, as they say. – BECKY CRUZ-JONES, Makati City