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A 2018 video clip of radio broadcaster Erwin Tulfo while lambasting Vice President Robredo for being ignorant of the existence of an anti-vagrancy law has been reuploaded on social media.

Reacting to Robredo’s statement on President Rodrigo Duterte’s June 13, 2018 directive to arrest “tambays” (loiterers), Tulfo’s assertion of the anti-vagrancy law is not true. Vagrancy, or the state of being homeless as defined under the Oxford Dictionary’s Lexico, has been decriminalized in the Philippines since 2012.

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