Thailand arrests 1,000 migrant workers including 400 Cambodians

[webfact]

 

Employers promised to arrange documentation for some workers, but others remained in custody wondering their fate.

Thai authorities arrested about 1,000 construction workers in the central province of Ayutthaya, at least 400 of whom are undocumented Cambodians, for working illegally, Radio Free Asia has learned.

 

Sources told RFA that some of the workers were released after their employers promised to arrange legal documents for them. 

 

Hundreds were still waiting for their release as of Wednesday evening, said Leung Sophon, a labor relations and human rights project officer at the Phnom Penh-based Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights, or CENTRAL. 

 

They hope that their employers can arrange work permits for them as well.

 

“All the workers have different bosses,” Leung Sophon told RFA Khmer. “Some have been assured by their employers that they will be able to return to work, as they have promised the Thai police that they would provide them with legal documents or visas, but most of them did not have valid papers at the time of their arrest.”

 

By RFA Khmer

Top picture: Cambodian migrant construction workers wait for their transport home outside a building site in downtown Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 12, 2016. Dake Kang/AP
 

Full story: Radio Free Asia 2023-10-14

 

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[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai authorities arrested about 1,000 construction workers in the central province of Ayutthaya, at least 400 of whom are undocumented Cambodians, for working illegally,

How many employers arrested ?

 

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

“All the workers have different bosses,” Leung Sophon told RFA Khmer. “Some have been assured by their employers that they will be able to return to work, as they have promised the Thai police that they would provide them with legal documents or visas, but most of them did not have valid papers at the time of their arrest.”

Only in Thailand, employers giving work to illegal migrants.

Get caught nothing happens, just sort out the paper-work

Thailand should be back at the top of people trafficking list again.

[2baht]

So, who's going to build Thailand now??? ????

[daejung]

17 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Only in Thailand, employers giving work to illegal migrants.

 

It happens in Europe  too

[Aussie999]

Bit racist singling out Cambodians.

[rwill]

1 hour ago, Aussie999 said:

Bit racist singling out Cambodians.

It would be almost all Myanmar where I live.

[proton]

Meanwhile thousands of Thais work illegally in Korea and Australia etc

[ChipButty]

2 minutes ago, proton said:

Meanwhile thousands of Thais work illegally in Korea and Australia etc

And ISRAEL 

[ChipButty]

How about they start arresting the employers and the agents, then the place will grind to a halt, 

[mikebell]

There's a shortage of hotel workers because most Thais are lazy & prefer to watch the rice grow rather than work.  Samui would collapse if it weren't for Myanmar workers supplementing the paucity of English speakers.