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The must be your first day in Thailand.

Thailand has an interesting and unique culture, and it's commendable that at least some among them want to preserve it. So some progressives don't like it... all the better. Fortunately, they are not in power. The Thai ones can watch from the sidelines where they belong, and the foreign ones can watch from even further afield where they (barely) belong.

I like you.

Excellent. Countries are perfectly entitled to -- and in fact should -- enforce their borders and immigration policy. So, the usual no-borders crowd will be protesting in his honor tomorrow, right?

That's true. Cultural norms are, er... flexible in the face of certain other con$id€rations.

It’s perfectly reasonable for Thais to express their cultural sensibilities, and to make rules enforcing them, in their own country.

Indeed, leftists loathe objective criteria. They have a very troubled relationship with truth in general.

Looks like we found the communist, Islamist, or combination of the two. Those are two -isms that appeal to the very weakest-minded people on the planet — and exponentially so when combined.

Indeed. These people are upset because one of their huge successes -- the unholy union between communism and Islamism that brought about The Islamic Republic -- is being jeopardized. Such people see those two things as pillars of their worldview, and getting rid of Iran is therefore akin to undoing human "progress". Bwahahahahhaaaaahhaa!

Foreigners should respect Thai cultural norms when they're in Thailand. Is that really a controversial statement? It shouldn't be.

Says you. But whatever; rounding every last one of them up and sending them back wherever they came from, or some facsimile thereof, is an excellent aspirational goal. Your America-hating "the USA owes the world whatever it says it needs" credo is getting crushed this year, and I'm giddy with excitement about that.

Emotional blackmail attempt noted, and rejected. Look, I get it. You and people like you live in kumbayaland with its imagined duty of sharing anything and everything you own with anyone and everyone who claims they need it. Me on the other hand: I reject that childlike utopian marxist garbage... Someone breaks into my country, I want them rounded up and removed ASAP. You will claim I am selfish, heartless, whatever. I will claim you are a gullible simping fool. You will then fall back on any of several tired numerous tropes about how ICE is behaving unconstitutionally, etc. -- all of which I reject as stemming from and being tainted by your feminized socialist-leaning worldview (which as should be obvious by now, I reject out of hand). And 'round and 'round we go!

Yes, exactly! Now you're getting it! Well done. Apropos of nothing at all, a friend without a driver license took his wife's car out yesterday. When the police stopped him on a minor road infraction, he told them he was en route to his place of gainful employment, he does this all the time, and the lack of some government paper shouldn't interfere with his ability to carry out his productive daily routine. Oddly, they didn't buy that as an excuse! 🤔

Presumably, you don’t recognize the authority of any nation to control who enters and remains in its territory? Because there’s not a single nation on earth encompassing land that didn’t involve some form of migration+conquest, etc., in its past. If you’re a foreigner in Thailand, following Thailand’s visa and immigration processes for example, that makes you quite the hypocrite.

Yawn. 🥱 No one is suggesting any of that — except you. Rounding up illegals is based on their BEHAVIOR of being in the USA illegally, not their race or any other characteristic leftists use to divide people (usually sow dissent or to preserve access to cheap labor/slaves, etc.). Good luck with your nazi fantasies.

Outstanding. I voted for this, and would do so again without hesitation. Illegal aliens are not "immigrants" and if their attendance is "chilled" or "deterred" then great! Their lives in the USA should be as uncomfortable as possible. GTFO!

You don't seriously think this incident would in any way prevent Thailand from defending itself against Cambodia's reckless, ill-advised, and undisciplined shenanigans, do you? For every bullet that may have been destroyed at the depot, I'm quite sure there are countless thousands elsewhere in Thailand. Same with every other category of munition.

I am an ardent supporter of mass deportations. Removal of all illegals from the USA is a great aspirational goal, and I fully support ICE's role in it.

Meh. I'd be a little more inclined to reacting favorable to articles like this if they were suffixed with "...for a native English speaker with no other native language background." If one grew up speaking Finnish, learning Hungarian would probably be relatively easy, akin to a native English speaker learning Swedish. The "thousands of characters" in East Asian ideographic writing systems (e.g. Chinese, Japanese) have distinct patterns running through them. They're far from being thousands of characters comprised of random squiggles. The difficulty of dealing with tonality is overblown. ...etc.

I'm quite sure there will be a correlation in the comments here, between those who are desperate to conclude ICE is being insufficiently trained and those who are just fine with DEI and all the compromised (in)competence that entails. Leftism... what a ridiculous concept.

I doubt Phnom Penh has full operational control over its armed forces, especially in far-flung areas of the kingdom. That's far from being an excuse... actually, I think it provides even more incentive for Thailand to do whatever it takes to defend itself against an unstable neighbor.

The usual suspects are out in force stewing in their bitterness that the only way their sainted progressives lost is because Thai voters were bought and paid for, or because the Thai electorate must be comprised of morons (who, not coincidentally, need the enlightenment of the AN white knights to show them the way), or because of corruption, or ... insert deflecting reasoning here. The progressives didn't win... boo-frickin-hoo. The world is a better place whenever that happens, actually.

Thailand should finish those rogues off once and for all. What a win that would be for regional stability, and the world at large.

What a waste of resources.

It's astonishing to me that anyone would ever expect to be able to enter a country of which they are a citizen using a passport from some other country. It's doubly astonishing to expect to still be a citizen of a country after having renounced that country's citizenship... what does a UK passport have to do with that woman in Spain mentioned in the article, given that she renounced her UK citizenship? I probably don't understand some of the nuance here with respect to the UK specifically.