Schools targeted as 80 foreigners arrested nationwide

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Schools targeted as 80 foreigners arrested nationwide

By The Nation

 

Pictures: Komchadluek

 

A total of 80 foreigners were arrested in the latest such crackdown led by deputy police chief Pol Maj-General Surachet Hakpal.

 

Surachet held a press conference at 2am at the Grace Hotel on Soi Sukhumvit 23 to announce the results of the sixth X-Ray Outlaw Foreigner operation that ran from Thursday until the early hours of Friday.

 

 

In the latest operation, police searched 127 spots around the country, including 13 international schools, 17 language schools and 61 normal schools, Surachet said.

 

He said 18 people were arrested on charges of overstaying their visa – five Indians, four Cambodians, two North Koreans, two Americans, two Britons, one Turk, one Kyrgyzstani and one Laotian.

 

He noted 54 were charged with unlawful entry into the Kingdom –33 Myanmarians, five Laotians, five Cambodians, four Indians, four North Koreans, two Vietnamese, and one American.

 

Eight other foreigners were arrested on other criminal charges –four Vietnamese, two Myanmarians, one Indian, and one Briton.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30342069

 

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[Mango Bob]

Seems like some teaching jobs are going to open up soon for new comers.

[Chang_paarp]

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

Surachet held a press conference at 2am at the Grace Hotel on Soi Sukhumvit 23 to announce the results of the sixth X-Ray Outlaw Foreigner operation that ran from Thursday until the early hours of Friday.

Interesting venue and time for a press conference.

[anon789561]

"Eight other foreigners were arrested on other criminal charges –four Vietnamese, two Myanmarians, one Indian, and one Briton"

i assume these others were for not having a WP. Interesting they are targeting the schools now

[ezzra]

Yeah, the Grace hotel, not you average bastion of culture and the gathering

of the  elite, more like the cesspool of iniquity....

[PatOngo]

Timely arrests.........they can't have the masses educated now can they and how can foreigners drum the national culture into them, that is a job for xenophobic locals!

[anon789561]

strange thing about that is there were no filipinos arrested. maybe they are all legal but i thought they used alot of cheap filipino english teachers in the schools

[Prairieboy]

38 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Yeah, the Grace hotel, not you average bastion of culture and the gathering

of the  elite, more like the cesspool of iniquity....

I have read that the Grace Hotel is the headquarters for the Thai Mafia - 2:00 AM is a strange time to hold a press conference - perhaps they meant 2:00 PM??

[Expatthailover]

51 minutes ago, Happy enough said:

"Eight other foreigners were arrested on other criminal charges –four Vietnamese, two Myanmarians, one Indian, and one Briton"

i assume these others were for not having a WP. Interesting they are targeting the schools now

If you are illegal you are illegal whether it be a school teacher or a bog cleaner.

Well done thailand

[JOC]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

33 Myanmarians, five Laotians, five Cambodians, four Indians, four North Koreans, two Vietnamese, and one American.

If those nationalities are representative for the teaching staff at international and language schools....no wonder Thai's are doing so badly in English..

[sanemax]

3 minutes ago, JOC said:

If those nationalities are representative for the teaching staff at international and language schools....no wonder Thai's are doing so badly in English..

TBF , many Americans can hardly speak in sentences  

[JOC]

I notice that the didn't use the nickname "Big Joke"  for Surachet in this article.....Wonder if the initials BJ have anything to do with the polity change?

 

Notice the sign behind the proud hunter....Xenophobia is alive and well

[ratcatcher]

58 minutes ago, Chang_paarp said:

Interesting venue and time for a press conference.

"...at the Grace Hotel on Soi Sukhumvit 23 "

The Grace Hotel, located in the heart of the busy souk in Soi 3  Lower Sukumvit area.

[bluesofa]

8 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

"...at the Grace Hotel on Soi Sukhumvit 23 "

The Grace Hotel, located in the heart of the busy souk in Soi 3  Lower Sukumvit area.

You just beat me to it! I was just about the say exactly the same.

 

You know what they say about some reporters:

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

or:

"Details? Don't bother me with details."

 

[scorecard]

2 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

You just beat me to it! I was just about the say exactly the same.

 

You know what they say about some reporters:

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

or:

"Details? Don't bother me with details."

 

 

Interesting, the reporter makes comments on the venue rather than the subject.

 

Another example of the poor quality of reporting / media in this country.  

[jonclark]

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

Yeah, the Grace hotel, not you average bastion of culture and the gathering

of the  elite, more like the cesspool of iniquity....

 

Sorry but this sounds a bit well fake. 

 

Aren't all Thai government schools closed and have been for a good few weeks?? And most government schools do not actually require foreign staff to stay during the long holiday. So how were these teachers caught...when then were not teaching??

 

And given the nationalities of those arrested they do not seem to be those which Thai school directors would want to employ as teachers. 

 

Sorry but this story is fake - some overstayers have been arrested and the rest is just complete turd. 

Edited March 30, 2018 by jonclark

[CanuckThai]

WhooHoo....the Canucks came out of it unscathed...must have been happy hour somewhere.....

[bluesofa]

17 minutes ago, jonclark said:

 

Sorry but this sounds a bit well fake. 

 

Aren't all Thai government schools closed and have been for a good few weeks?? And most government schools do not actually require foreign staff to stay during the long holiday. So how were these teachers caught...when then were not teaching??

 

And given the nationalities of those arrested they do not seem to be those which Thai school directors would want to employ as teachers. 

 

Sorry but this story is fake - some overstayers have been arrested and the rest is just complete turd. 

 

"In the latest operation, police searched 127 spots around the country, including 13 international schools, 17 language schools and 61 normal schools"

 

The language schools aren't closed.

 

[tukkytuktuk]

Is this some kind of big joke?

[Misterwhisper]

2 hours ago, Chang_paarp said:

Interesting venue and time for a press conference.

Was it held in that seedy honky-tonk in the basement, perhaps? 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

1 hour ago, Happy enough said:

strange thing about that is there were no filipinos arrested. maybe they are all legal but i thought they used alot of cheap filipino english teachers in the schools

 

And since when would North Koreans be teaching in any kind of language school or international school in Thailand? Teaching what?

 

Although, if you look at his numbers closely, not all the arrests/offenses were in connection with schools. So you can't quite equate the nationalities arrested with where they may have been arrested, since it could have been schools or other kinds of places.

 

 

Edited March 30, 2018 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[anon789561]

Just now, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

And since when would North Koreans be teaching in any kind of language school or international school in Thailand? Teaching what?

 

that did cross my mind too. guess they'll be off to south korea then

[trd]

If you are illegal you are illegal whether it be a school teacher or a bog cleaner.
Well done thailand

Yes well done Thailand. Clear this scum away. We can't have teachers going near kids.

[keithpa]

3 hours ago, Happy enough said:

"Eight other foreigners were arrested on other criminal charges –four Vietnamese, two Myanmarians, one Indian, and one Briton"

i assume these others were for not having a WP. Interesting they are targeting the schools now

Yes, very interesting indeed. (why?)

[keithpa]

13 minutes ago, trd said:

2 hours ago, Expatthailover said:

If you are illegal you are illegal whether it be a school teacher or a bog cleaner.
Well done thailand

Yes well done Thailand. Clear this scum away. We can't have teachers going near kids.

Where did you read they were teachers? Did it enter your mind that they could , and I say could, be pedos?

[anon789561]

2 minutes ago, keithpa said:

Yes, very interesting indeed. (why?)

not sure. maybe a lot of them are using it as a front whilst doing other illegal stuff maybe

[keithpa]

21 minutes ago, Happy enough said:

that did cross my mind too. guess they'll be off to south korea then

English, maths, science,geography, dozens of subjects they could have been teaching.

[anon789561]

Just now, keithpa said:

English, maths, science,geography, dozens of subjects they could have been teaching.

yeah they could have been history and geography teachers. <deleted> i'd like to sit in on one of those lessons 5555

[Jeremy50]

Haven't these xenophobic stuffed uniforms anything better to do? Although overstaying seems to be rampant at the moment, there are hotspots such as Pattaya, even one of those idiots who make those dreadfully repetitive and tedious Pattaya Walking street videos on Youtube is an overstaying culprit, .........and tells everyone about it. I wonder how long he'll last?

 

Living near a border make visa running a rather painless, and even enjoyable experience.

[mommysboy]

As someone pointed out, it's an odd time to conduct a clean up because Thai schools are mainly closed for summer- a bit like raiding a pub after the customers have gone.  Perhaps this was mostly an exercise in not catching people, other than a few token scapegoats.