Contract Workers

You’ve painted a dismal picture for Filipino expatriates seeking a better life outside the Philippines. However, you omitted an important fact: Not all Filipinos are maids or unskilled workers. My grandparents came here as college professors at Columbia University; my parents, uncles, aunts, cousins and siblings are doctors, lawyers, nurses and business persons.

And I am a second-generation American working in Orange County as a physician. There is not a maid among us.

OSMUNDO R. SAGUIL, Long Beach