By Natcha Patanasophon

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-ocha on Friday urged his government to solve the country’s cross border migration problem to combat the covid crisis.

 

The decision comes after the number of unregistered migrants crossing the border is growing, and increasing press reports about the poor treatment of cross border migrants by their place of employment and by the human traffickers.

 

“There have been several cases of smuggling across the border over the past week. 17 Myanmar migrants were arrested on November 3 at a checkpoint in Chiangmai, the same day 19 other Myanmar migrants were found in Huai Ngu Reservoir area,” said Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana, government spokesman.

 

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Bit late isn't it ?

 

As soon as Delta variant hit India, and spread into Maynamar through the open borders in India to Maynamar - they should have spent billions to seal the Thai Maynmar boder.  Instead they did nothing, and it was most likely the open migration from Myanmar into Thailand that bought Delta into the country. 

How many times have heard this mantra?

Stop talking and stop the guides and the brown envelopes!

Edited November 5, 20214 yr by fangless

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-ocha on Friday urged his government to solve the country’s cross border migration problem to combat the covid crisis

That's a very big ask in a country that actively promotes leaky borders.

Gosh. Would the Thai government consider that immigrant workers be granted the same pay and protections as Thai workers? 5555

4 hours ago, DonniePeverley said:

it was most likely the open migration from Myanmar into Thailand that bought Delta into the country

Where is your proof that it was "most likely" the Burmese who brought that variant here? I thank you in advance for bing your source. 

 

It could just as well have been a Thai - or an expat for that matter - returning from a trip abroad who smuggled the pesky virus in. 

 

These Burmese seem to be terrible people. They come here to rape and kill nice white girls holidaying on islands and now they are enemy number 1 in the fight against Covid. Terrible people! (sarcasm)

Another request from our prime minister to the authorities to prevent illegal cross border entry into Thailand

Over 30,000 illegal immigrants from neighboring countries have been arrested this year to date for illegal entry into the country. The actual number is probably much higher

The huge budget given to the army and border control forces  seem unable to prevent illegal immigration on a massive scale during the worst pandemic the country has known.

In the meantime police and immigration insist  legal tourists and residents jump through hoops on a regular basis with their  obsession for petty regulations and paperwork from correctly documented foreigners who had to provide a mountain of paperwork to get here in the first place.

 

Keep reminding them to do their jobs and protect the country, 555.

Too many vested interests in the business of trafficking to make any difference to what he says.

31 minutes ago, djayz said:

Where is your proof that it was "most likely" the Burmese who brought that variant here? I thank you in advance for bing your source. 

I think it was someone coming from Cambodia.

 

31 minutes ago, djayz said:

It could just as well have been a Thai - or an expat for that matter - returning from a trip abroad who smuggled the pesky virus in.

Almost zero chance that it was a Westerner.

1 hour ago, jippytum said:

The huge budget given to the army and border control forces  seem unable to prevent illegal immigration

Give them a break. They are too busy growing coriander.

 

"Prayut orders relevant agencies to halt cross-border migration"

 

Oh good, that's fixed then.

2 hours ago, djayz said:

These Burmese seem to be terrible people. They come here to rape and kill nice white girls holidaying on islands and now they are enemy number 1 in the fight against Covid. Terrible people! (sarcasm)

You are pretty close to how a lot of Thais see them,and what is taught in schools.

Myanmar has been an enemy for many years in the past and the Thais have a hard time forgetting

that.

7 minutes ago, jvs said:

You are pretty close to how a lot of Thais see them,and what is taught in schools.

Myanmar has been an enemy for many years in the past and the Thais have a hard time forgetting

that.

That may well be the case, but we all know what their education is like, so most of them can't help it. GIGO. However, I am indignant to read some comments from fellow expats who also spout out this xenophobic drivel about Burmese. 

11 minutes ago, djayz said:

That may well be the case, but we all know what their education is like, so most of them can't help it. GIGO. However, I am indignant to read some comments from fellow expats who also spout out this xenophobic drivel about Burmese. 

I see it almost the same as some older Europeans still hating the Germans,time to let go and move on.

Over 4,800Km of borders, almost all unfenced and unmarked.  Should be simple to close those.  ????

 

If the US with all its resources can't close its 3,000+Km Southern border and the UK can't close its 30Km ditch (though that's from lack of political will), what chance does Thailand have?

Human migration globally is driven by poverty and lack of opportunities. Period, until Thailand get Myanmar to fix that it will continue. If the army catch and send back migrants, all the migrants will do is a swift about turn and re enter again..as they have no other option as they live in abject poverty with very limited means to support themselves or their families. Until poverty is fixed, there is nothing, nothing the Thai army or government can do to stop migrants coming here. 

Prayut orders relevant agencies to halt cross-border migration.

Where have we heard this before? Was it with the Burma border and all the illegals getting bussed into Thailand with the IOs looking the other way with their filled pockets which started of the second wave of the Cvirus.

Did the soldier masquerading as a PM not say he would look into it?

Just like the there will be no coup, then more recently, there will be no floods.

Does anyone actually listen to this joker anymore?

 

The corruption income generated to senior police and military is too much to stop this trade. Prayut could easily do this by knocking heads hard like the old dictator Sarit but consequences are too scary for him and Prawit to contemplate. Lip pservice is the safest way.

12 hours ago, webfact said:

solve the country’s cross border migration problem

Impossible, with the hundreds of miles of open border land in heavily forested and mountainous terrain, as I well know from my days with the Tourist Police based in Chiang Rai. 

13 hours ago, webfact said:

number of unregistered migrants crossing the border is growing,

Just in from "Breaking News" The Nation this afternoon (6th November 2021):-

A group of 23 illegal Myanmar migrants, three of whom were dead and four seriously injured, were found stranded on the roadside in Kamphaeng Phet province on Saturday.

Initial interrogation revealed that the group had entered Thailand illegally via natural channels and had paid agents 7,000 to 23,000 baht per person to transport them in a pick-up truck from ............ Mae Sot to job sites in different parts of Thailand.

“When the truck reached Kamphaeng Phet, it lost control while travelling downhill and overturned. Some of the passengers were thrown overboard,”

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40008495

3 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

Impossible, with the hundreds of miles of open border land in heavily forested and mountainous terrain, as I well know from my days with the Tourist Police based in Chiang Rai. 

Up Fang way i have actually driven into Burma without realising it twice; no Border markings or Border Checkpoints whatsoever. The only way i knew where i had stumbled into was when i reached a Village and noticed they were driving on the other side of the road.  Second time i saw a Burmese Police Car at the same time he saw me and he then told me to turn around and go back the way i came !

13 hours ago, djayz said:

Where is your proof that it was "most likely" the Burmese who brought that variant here? I thank you in advance for bing your source. 

 

It could just as well have been a Thai - or an expat for that matter - returning from a trip abroad who smuggled the pesky virus in. 

 

These Burmese seem to be terrible people. They come here to rape and kill nice white girls holidaying on islands and now they are enemy number 1 in the fight against Covid. Terrible people! (sarcasm)

You are quoting as if i am blaming Myanmaar for the issue. Not the case. But as soon as India was hit with covid, and the political instability in Myanmaar, along with some non existant borders between Mayanmaar and India, then it was clear the virus would enter Maynaanmar. Thailand was always going to end up in trouble as it had loads of routes from Myanmaar into Thailand.