Border security reinforced to prevent illegal crossings

[webfact]

 

By Sirakij Pornbanggird

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - As Myanmar’s daily case numbers spike, Thailand’s defense authorities have ordered security officers including policemen, soldiers, and local officers to reinforce the border to prevent any illegal crossings.

 

The Ministry of Defence’s spokesperson, Lieutenant General Kongcheep Tantrawanit revealed that since July last year. Thailand’s security authorities have arrested as many as 44,168 illegal crossers comprising 33,576 along the border and 10,592 in Thailand’s territory.

 

In July 2021 alone, over 4,300 illegal crossers were arrested.

In response to the current state of Myanmar’s economy, internal conflict, and rising Covid-19 cases, Thailand must keep a careful watch on the 2,401 kilometer-long border between the two countries.

 

Forces have been deployed to guard both land and sea borders.

 

Meanwhile, in the east, patrol forces are having to be more cautious as illegal crossers from Laos and Cambodia have recently been spotted more frequently.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2021-08-02

 

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[Scrotobike]

Man the trenches

Deploy the submarine

 

[klauskunkel]

"Border security reinforced (again) to prevent illegal crossings (again)"

It appears that Thailand's border security is as temporary as it is porous, since there are articles about its reinforcement on a monthly basis. So the question is: Can they simply not fix it permanently, or is this just too good a news opportunity showing how they are valiantly scrambling to do something every month?

[internationalism]

those arrested near border and inside country, are only a tip of an iceberg.

Probably only around 5-10% of those who managed through and keep undetected.

Partly they are thai citizens, who are coming back from working in Malaysia.

For the thonglor cluster are responsible thai casino goers to Poipet, on cambodia's border, who brought with them the UK strain. Thai immigration let them through for weekends.

Edited August 2, 2021 by internationalism

[grego49]

1 hour ago, Scrotobike said:

Man the trenches

Deploy the submarine

 

 

[harada]

Between the borders and the streets   I think the boys in brown and green are going to have their work cut out for them over the next few months. ????

[law ling]

1. There's an odd paradox in all this: keeping out aliens (and returning Thais) who bypass quarantine - and an apparent huge need for (low-pay and work-ready) aliens to man the country's factorys, food processing and construction.

 

2. Apart from border patrols, and if they were serious, there ought to be huge criminal penaltys for harbouring, employing or housing illegal entrants ... it seems that once they get in, they're left alone.

[trainman34014]

6 hours ago, Scrotobike said:

Man the trenches

Deploy the submarine

 

What about the Aircraft Carrier with a Crew of 10,000 ?    Ah; forgot, they are all asleep permanently and the Battery is flat anyway !

[trainman34014]

5 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

"Border security reinforced (again) to prevent illegal crossings (again)"

It appears that Thailand's border security is as temporary as it is porous, since there are articles about its reinforcement on a monthly basis. So the question is: Can they simply not fix it permanently, or is this just too good a news opportunity showing how they are valiantly scrambling to do something every month?

You can't fix an 800 mile Cullender !

[Burma Bill]

10 hours ago, webfact said:

to reinforce the border to prevent any illegal crossings.

Not only the border with Burma, but also with Cambodia. I must congratulate the Thais on preventing their OWN citizens trying to cross illegally into Cambodia possibly bringing more Delta Variant infections into the Royal Kingdom!

 

 "Early yesterday morning, Thai Border Guard Forces detained 8 Thai nationals who were trying to illegally cross the border into Cambodia in order to work in a Casino"

 

https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50906195/8-thai-casino-workers-detained-for-illegally-crossing-closed-cambodia-thai-border/

[spidermike007]

Not sealing off the border with Burma, with the use of the 550,000 soldiers who are supposed to protect the nation, (and likely do next to nothing daily) and allowing corrupt border officials to continue working their franchises, is and was a crime against humanity. And for them to now pretend that they are all of a sudden taking this "disease leak" seriously, should also be regarded as a crime. Especially since they have warned against disseminating fake news.

 

What about their own fake news, like this one? Imagine if a citizen's arrest were a real thing here?
 

Edited August 2, 2021 by spidermike007

[Adelphi]

Thousands of undocumented, untested and unvaccinated people slipping across the border on a regular bases – and they wonder where all of the Covid infection has come from.

 

While they refuse to let fully documented, tested and vaccinated foreigners who would spend money enter Thailand with out jumping through all of the hoops.

 

They really have lost the plot.

[Cake Monster]

1 hour ago, Burma Bill said:

Not only the border with Burma, but also with Cambodia. I must congratulate the Thais on preventing their OWN citizens trying to cross illegally into Cambodia possibly bringing more Delta Variant infections into the Royal Kingdom!

 

 "Early yesterday morning, Thai Border Guard Forces detained 8 Thai nationals who were trying to illegally cross the border into Cambodia in order to work in a Casino"

 

https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50906195/8-thai-casino-workers-detained-for-illegally-crossing-closed-cambodia-thai-border/

The Cambodian Authorities have also called upon Thailand to tighten their porous Border to prevent Thais from crossing Illegally.

[mark131v]

World leaders in shutting the stable door when the horse has buggered right off!