Hundreds of Thais from Malaysia arrive without proper documentation

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Nearly 300 Thai people returning from Malaysia were found to have entered Su-ngai Kolok without proper documentation.

 

On Sunday (April 19), Su-ngai Kolok Provincial Police and the immigration officer at Su-ngai Kolok district and Narathiwat province patrolled a specific area for checking Thai people travelling from Malaysia without being legally stamped in their passports.

 

On the first day, on Saturday, 344 people had come to the checkpoint but only 91 people had registered in advance, of whom only 48 had legal documents. In the other cases, the documents were incomplete. It was also found that four people had high body temperature and were immediately brought to a hospital.

 

The arrival of 300 migrants yesterday resulted in officials tightening immigration. As soon as this group returned to Thailand, they must go through a temperature screening process and face prosecution for illegally entering the city, which is punishable with a fine of Bt800 and be placed in state quarantine for 14 days, just like other Thai people returning from overseas.

 

Immigration officials have warned that immigration without a passport stamp from Malaysia and Thailand may affect travel to work in Malaysia in the future.

 

Police started patrolling the natural, borders recently after some 130 Thais, most of them labourers in palm oil, rubber and fishery businesses were found to have sneaked in.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30386345

 

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Form THB 1000 is usually accepted.

Even though only 47 out of 300 had legal paperwork, they were all allowed in with payment of 800 baht fine! I hope that the quarantine facilities are more secure than the border! Is everybody in separate rooms in quarantine? If not, say someone contracts Covid-19 on day 10 of 14, does everyone then go back to Day 1 again? 

24 minutes ago, graemeaylward said:

If not, say someone contracts Covid-19 on day 10 of 14, does everyone then go back to Day 1 again? 

Only the ones that live

2 hours ago, graemeaylward said:

If not, say someone contracts Covid-19 on day 10 of 14, does everyone then go back to Day 1 again?

Nah they get to go home... spreading the good news.

Welcome home!

It must be a terrible feeling to be stuck a few meters outside of your home country and not allowed to cross the border. Not worthy to be called a human civilization. 

No country should forbid its citizens to return home.

 

Yes, they are very civilized people running around without proper documentation, sneaking in and out of countries. They had ample time to return before both countries decided to shut down the borders. Why hadn't they returned? These are not citizens but fugitives.

On 4/19/2020 at 8:41 PM, graemeaylward said:

Is everybody in separate rooms in quarantine? If not, say someone contracts Covid-19 on day 10 of 14, does everyone then go back to Day 1 again?

The narrator on a recent video posted on ThaiVisa stated that in the military quarantine location he was in, Nakhon Phatom, there were two persons to a room and many were unrelated.  No mention was made regarding the action to be taken if somebody became sick during their quarantine period.

'nuf sed.