The new senate bill targeting the Philippines and some other countries – Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia – is fuelled by controversial political and economic agendas that have caused turmoil since the 1980s. For some time, US senators Richard Durbin (Dem, Illinois) and Patrick Leahy (Dem, Vermont
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