Illegal migrant cleaners arrested at two "well-known" universities in Bangkok

[webfact]

Picture: Siam Rath

 

Siam Rath reported that immigration in the Thai capital Bangkok received information from an informant that many migrant workers were working illegally at two universities.

 

Twenty officers in two teams went to the universities yesterday morning. The universities were not named just referred to as "well-known", standard Thai rhetoric. 

 

At the first uni in Pathumwan six migrants were found to be illegally in Thailand and working without a permit. Two were on overstay.

 

Picture: Siam Rath

 

At the second uni in Ratchada Phisek Road four had no work permit and six were working in jobs contrary to what was specified on their documents.

 

They were all taken to the Suan Phlu detention center ahead of their prosecution.

 

The owner of a cleaning company that hired them has been brought in for questioning over the matter. 

 

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[4MyEgo]

Um did anyone tell the arresting officers that cleaners are hard to come by, let alone getting a Thai to want to work ?

 

"The owner of a cleaning company that hired them has been brought in for questioning over the matter". 

 

Clearly a misunderstanding, brown envelopes exchanged and everything back to normal then.

 

 

Edited December 7, 2022 by 4MyEgo

[Tropicalevo]

5 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Um did anyone tell the arresting officers that cleaners are hard to come by, let alone getting a Thai to want to work ?

Hmm. I cannot say that I agree with all of that thought.

I have run a cleaning business here for 20 years and I only employ Thais.

Yes - hard to recruit sometimes, but doable.

[4MyEgo]

7 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

Hmm. I cannot say that I agree with all of that thought.

I have run a cleaning business here for 20 years and I only employ Thais.

Yes - hard to recruit sometimes, but doable.

Is that in the north-east ? 

 

My apologies, reading two stories at once, this was in Bangkok, the other story was in the north-east and nothing to do with cleaning.

 

 

 

Edited December 7, 2022 by 4MyEgo

[khunjeff]

7 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

"The owner of a cleaning company that hired them has been brought in for questioning over the matter". 

 

Clearly a misunderstanding, brown envelopes exchanged and everything back to normal then.

Back to normal for the company owner, while the lives of the poor cleaners are upended and ruined. 

[RichardColeman]

Pretty sure if these two illegal cleaners were in the UK they would be in a 4 star hotel now, with some lefty solicitor processing the asylum paperwork within hours.

[hotchilli]

21 hours ago, webfact said:

The owner of a cleaning company that hired them has been brought in for questioning over the matter. 

And trafficking offences?

[nigelforbes]

low hanging fruit, picked up as the result of a tip off, not exactly high quality priority policing at its finest.

[IAMHERE]

On 12/7/2022 at 8:51 AM, webfact said:

They were all taken to the Suan Phlu detention center ahead of their prosecution.

I'm betting that they'll be put to work cleaning the center until their prosecution and later relocated.

 

A competing cleaning company is my guess for the grass.