The daughter of the late senator Blas Ople is testing the political waters as a potential senatorial bet. Susan “Toots” Ople, the late senator's daughter, confirmed this information during a recent interview with the anchors of the prime-time radio program “Cuentas Claras” over station DYTR. In that interview, Ople said, if at all, her senatorial bid materializes, she will be banking on a platform dedicated to the well-being of migrant workers and victims of human trafficking. In his colorful lifetime, the late senator was a former secretary of the department of labor during the Marcos regime. Although, a staunch Marcos follower, Ople succeeded to varnish his image as an independent bureaucrat to become a prominent fixture of the succeeding Cory administration. His greatest contribution to Cory's government was when he was chosen one of the elite members of the Constitutional Commission. This body drafted the so-called Cory Constitution in 1987.

As his own man, even during a government hostile to Marcos boys, the former labor secretary was elected senator of the country. It was during his stint as senator that he founded the Blas F. Ople Policy Center. This is the same center which caters to the needs of migrant workers and victims of human trafficking that the Ople daughter is hoping it will carry her to the pinnacle of power as senator. With an all-encompassing advocacy that included legislation, immigration, human rights, crime, law and justice and human smuggling, the Ople center is in the forefront of combating illegal recruitment and human trafficking. Lately, the migrants' right advocacy called on legislators to amend the confidentiality clause in the country's anti-trafficking law, saying the provision is partial to offenders and violates the public's right to know about human smuggling schemes.

The Blas F. Ople Policy Center said the clause which stipulates the right to privacy of both the trafficked person and the accused prevents the victims and non government organizations from seeking media's help to warn the public about the activities of notorious traffickers. Most of the cases documented by the center were stories of Filipina girls recruited for non-existent jobs abroad only to end up in brothels and whorehouses after the helpless recruit have no one to turn to in a foreign land. The center also documented victims of illegal recruiters only to be repatriated to their home country after they were found to have no working visas.