Six Chinese held for illegal entry

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Six Chinese held for illegal entry

By THE NATION

 

 

Six Chinese were arrested in Tak’s Mae Sot district today (September 3) after illegally entering Thailand via the Myanmar border.

 

At 1am, soldiers and immigration police stopped a van with the Chinese passengers at a checkpoint in Mae Sot district.

 

The Chinese, who worked in Myanmar and crossed the border into Thailand via the Moei River, had expired visas.

 

All of them were promptly arrested, together with the van driver and another Thai passenger.

 

The six Chinese were charged with illegal entry, while the two Thais were arrested for helping foreigners illegally enter the country.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30393957

 

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[AlfHuy]

who would have thought that.

Just turn up at border and say: I am Ch.... and you get your citizenship straight away and a tuktuk ride to BKK immigration office.

[AlfHuy]

if it was a farang, you would see police and their SWAT team all smiling in a picture.

[trucking]

No surprise it happened at Mae Sot. Last time I did a border bounce there it was jam packed solid with Chinese working on the Burmese side of the bridge.

 

These are the ones that were caught. Bound to be others that slipped through the net.

[Matzzon]

I am just baffled! They are arresting people that are illegally sneaking in to a country through natural borders during an emergency decree caused by a pandemic. Not more than a couple of lines of news. When they find a foreigner on overstay, they write a full book. In other countries where they find people trying to sneak in illegally in the country during an emergency decree they will be shot.

[hotchilli]

19 hours ago, webfact said:

The six Chinese were charged with illegal entry, while the two Thais were arrested for helping foreigners illegally enter the country.

Time Thailand was put back on the trafficking watch list.

[Gee Ku]

Thai are not hard hearted. Actually very soft hearted generally. They treat farang harder because farang immigration treats Thai mercilessly. And too many farang think they are morally superior albeit patronising girlie bars and prostitutes of both genders. A change of attitude and behaviour of both sides is required for farang-Thai harmony to bloom.

[american2]

It seems like this is happening constantly through different border crossings.  I wonder if these Chinese could be coming to Thailand as spies or agitators.

[richard_smith237]

Those slipping through porous borders are necessary so that when Thailand does start testing more of its citizens and Positive Covid-19 cases are discovered there is someone non-Thai for the government to blame. 

[Bangkok Barry]

3 hours ago, Gee Ku said:

Thai are not hard hearted. Actually very soft hearted generally. They treat farang harder because farang immigration treats Thai mercilessly. And too many farang think they are morally superior albeit patronising girlie bars and prostitutes of both genders. A change of attitude and behaviour of both sides is required for farang-Thai harmony to bloom.

Immigration services around the world have very good cause to treat any Thai, or anyone from other less wealthy nations, with suspicion for obvious reasons. They could well be seeking to enter and not leave again as wages and living standards are usually higher, or perceived to be from afar. And Thai women in particular are known for liking to work night shifts as entertainment providers. Immigration services and embassies have seen it all and heard the stories a hundred times and are naturally cautious with those from countries whose citizens are known to be economical with the truth.

[ExpatOne]

This is how we ended up with Corona in the country.

[natway09]

They will be charged, black listed & returned home at their coat ,,,,same as you would be