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Born in Israel, hundreds of Filipino children risk expulsion

  TEL AVIV, Israel -- In the heat of the summer, Sivan Noel and her sister Michal say they rarely venture outside of their family's small, basement apartment in Tel Aviv. The two girls, 11 and nine, risk being deported to the family's home country, the Philippines, even though they've never set foot there. "I was born here," said Sivan, the 11-year-old. "It's really unfair that after being born here and having a family, friends, school and studies, we are being told that... we now must leave to a place that we hardly know." They and hundreds of other Filipino families in Israel are caught up in a legal battle that has put them at risk of deportation. Many of th...

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