Police launch major crackdown on foreigners on Soi Cowboy - scores of English teachers and visa overstayers arrested

[WorldTravellerMUC]

Next then please down from Cowboy to Sukhumvit Soi 3? This should allow for even a larger "arrest - count " at night time......

[HooHaa]

30 minutes ago, Dustdevil said:

I did two master's degrees and taught at universities and companies from Japan to Dubai to Equatorial Guinea for 30 years. No wonder among my colleagues "backpacker" teachers are so disparaged. What losers, some of them. Others are just naive, starry-eyed little undergraduates who think they can earn their way around the world imparting their world language. And they spend their time in Soi Cowboy?? Anyway it's too late to start a career in EFL with any kind of gainful employment no matter what your qualifications--unless you think $2000 a month in China is a great deal. Probably good for 25-year-olds who want Chinese gfs. Can't blame them there. I married a Chinese (from KL).

nice slur against english teachers in general, however , had you read the article, you would likely be aware that these weren't run-of-the mill undergraduate transient english teachers, but rather exclusively people of various colours and natinalities staying in thailand living and working illegally under cover of a series of spurious types of employment.

but i suppose that's hardly relevant when you have an axe to grind.

Edited February 28, 2018 by HooHaa

[trianglechoke]

Many people are calling racism.

 

I don't see that at all. This is smart policing. Rather than forcing police to stop and search 'colour' based on population..... As London police have to and the result is massive jumps in certain crimes because the cops are not allowed to stop and search the obvious targets. Thailand's police are correct this time........... Do you guys have any idea how unusual the sentence is???? Especially when it is actually correct????

 

The cops have been observing and recording for a few years. Pretending to not give a shit. They now have a MASSIVE data base and loads of footage of who has been doing what and it's Som Nam naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa time.

 

Bangkok is better without such scum 

[ThaiFelix]

Priests??  So much for their policy of "Quality not quantity".....scraping the bottom of the barrel now!!

[The Teacher]

Hahahahaha There is not one Native English speaker among them, makes it look bad for ones doing a great job in their schools trying to bring the country out of the dark ages. Deport and never let them back, such a bad disgrace to the Teaching fraternity !!!!!!!!

[AGLV0121]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The 75 suspects will be blacklisted and deported, he added.

 

You mean "whitelisted"?

[The Teacher]

30 minutes ago, WorldTravellerMUC said:

Next then please down from Cowboy to Sukhumvit Soi 3? This should allow for even a larger "arrest - count " at night time......

Last time I looked there wasn't any schools on Soi Cowboy , hahahahahaha

[sanemax]

1 minute ago, The Teacher said:

Deport and never let them back, such a bad disgrace to the Teaching fraternity !!!!!!!!

They should be put into jail for a few weeks, with a big Black man ..........well, an even bigger one

[Esanlover]

So still hunting season on foreigners

[glasswort]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Without explaining in further detail they said that the illegals came from Uganda, Rwanda, India, Uzbekistan, Canada, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Burma, Laos and Cambodia.

Good to see that English is being taught by native speakers. Little wonder that the standard here is so bad.

[wvavin]

They only realized there are so many illegal visitors now? Amazing!

[saakura]

6 minutes ago, The Teacher said:

Hahahahaha There is not one Native English speaker among them, makes it look bad for ones doing a great job in their schools trying to bring the country out of the dark ages. Deport and never let them back, such a bad disgrace to the Teaching fraternity !!!!!!!!

The Thais should grant you a knighthood for tirelessly doing "a great job trying to bring the country out of the dark ages" as you put it.  

 

LOL, your name betrays your bias. There are many many illiterate drifters from western countries also who moonshine as teachers in various asian countries, to pursue their passion for mongering, alcohol, drugs etc. Just coming from a native english speaking nation is not the end of it.

[overherebc]

18 minutes ago, Esanlover said:

So still hunting season on foreigners

Not really, just illegals. Shame UK can't do the same.

[NoshowJones]

Which 24 hours is that then?

[Jimdandy]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

scores of English teachers and visa overstayers arrested

And they wonder why the educational system on ALL levels is a farce...I have taught in several countries and the educational institutions I was involved with tell you up front that if you are hanging out in bars and the school finds out about it you're done...

[Gunna]

36 minutes ago, The Teacher said:

Last time I looked there wasn't any schools on Soi Cowboy , hahahahahaha

I suppose Afterskool Bar doesn't count, although they show off many skills that they learnt somewhere.

[Jimdandy]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

All 78 people arrested were dark in color, 

Okaaayyy, so when is the 'light in color' raid going to happen? Smacks of racism again but who am I to blow against the wind?

[RichardColeman]

3 hours ago, Pattaya28 said:

....... even the Canadian ? 

He was just the unlucky Black Canadian Priest !

[Antioc]

Thumbs up to the Royal Thai Police.  No doubt quite a bit of intelligence work goes in before the raids take place.  Dark people aren't exempt from police attention and if they have become a major problem for Thailand then raids and arrests are in order.  I would like to know how many from bordering countries were among the lot arrested.  A breakdown would have thrown more light on the problem as I suspect there are far more from those countries than we think.  Being African or Indian makes it hard to blend in but coming from Laos etc makes it much easier and far more work for the Police Intelligence Units.

 

[Jeremy50]

40 minutes ago, The Teacher said:

Last time I looked there wasn't any schools on Soi Cowboy , hahahahahaha

Well, there is a bar called Playskool or Playschool. I wonder what sort of nice people that attracts? Otherwise there are a couple of schools around in the corner in Soi 23.

[DonaldBattles]

If the immigration rules and laws were tighten up you could dramatically reduce the number of criminals they let in. But doing so would damage Bangkok sex industry.

[MrPatrickThai]

About time, lower Sukhuwit is overrun by these people. 

Sadly, the police use them in their own drug operations.

[anon789561]

4 hours ago, Essecola said:

Is this supposed to be something new? Isn't it they go on round ups of "dark skinned" people at least a couple times a year and always in the same areas? Not exactly new news. Some ppl must never get tired of reading the same news articles over and over.

i never get tired of reading these articles and would happily read them 10 times a day until all those scum bags are deported

[dunroaming]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Without explaining in further detail they said that the illegals came from Uganda, Rwanda, India, Uzbekistan, Canada, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Burma, Laos and Cambodia.

I suspect that the ones from Vietnam, Burma, Laos and Cambodia were girls from the bars.  Maybe they can be excused as they supply such an essential service in the area 

[moe666]

I wonder if the they got the watch salesman, I ask him every time you got a work permit. He closes up his watch case and leaves

[moe666]

18 minutes ago, DonaldBattles said:

If the immigration rules and laws were tighten up you could dramatically reduce the number of criminals they let in. But doing so would damage Bangkok sex industry.

Don it would not matter Soi Cowboy is where a lot of the local expats hang, teachers, business people and all the ones I know are legal and not criminal

[natway09]

So, every dark skinned person will be DNA,d at the airport. The ques will collapse the building

[ttrd]

8 hours ago, HooHaa said:

Not quite sure how dna is going to help keep them from returning unless they begin testing in situ.

 

Makes a nice sound byte though...

Fake Passports, Fake visas, Fake professions, Fake asylumseekers - so yes, it is a certain risk that it will be collected Fake DNA's as well.....

Edited February 28, 2018 by ttrd

[toofarnorth]

Glad those 2 at #8 are no where near me , wouldn't want to bump into them after dark.

Oh maybe I have but never realised .

[SicTransit]

16 minutes ago, ttrd said:

Fake Passports, Fake visas, Fake professions, Fake asylumseekers - so yes, it is a certain risk that it will be collected Fake DNA's as well.....

Every one of these still probably better than genuine holier-than-thou and racist attitudes in the thread.