On 7/11/2025 at 1:14 PM, fredwiggy said:

didn't say because you're not the police you couldn't know anything.

that's exactly what you said - I was quoting you!

Those who portray immigration as a problem do so not from a position of evidence or reason, but from a place of fear, ignorance, and hate. Their arguments are not grounded in reliable evidence. Instead, they rely on harmful generalizations and emotionally charged rhetoric. They misrepresent the people they label as “illegal,” ignoring both the complex legal realities and the humanity of those individuals.
Such critics fail to recognize the vital economic, cultural, and social contributions that immigrants—documented or not—make to the societies in which they live. They conveniently overlook that many migrants take on difficult, low-paid work that others refuse to do, helping keep entire sectors running, from agriculture and construction to elder care and hospitality.
Moreover, these detractors rarely show any understanding or curiosity about the circumstances that drive people to leave their homelands—whether it’s war, persecution, economic desperation, or environmental disaster. Instead, they reduce individuals with hopes, families, and dreams to faceless threats.
True discourse on immigration must start from a place of empathy, context, and fact. To do otherwise is not just intellectually lazy—it’s morally wrong. Dehumanizing people who seek a better life doesn't solve any problem; it only fosters division, cruelty, and injustice.
 

Another interesting news topic hijacked by squabbling children fighting, about things that have nothing to do with the topic!

 

Is there NO shame in you, are you grown people, or really 12 years old intellectually stunted bored loners with nothing else to do?

7 hours ago, kwilco said:

that's exactly what you said - I was quoting you!

This is what I said,.............."No, the only way anyone can know about anyone here is to know them personally, and then you only know a little. Anything more is assumptions."............Then you said,.............." you resort to the classiccliche -  ‘Unless you’re the police, you can’t possibly know anything.’............"Then I said,...."I didn't say because you're not the police you couldn't know anything. You might personally know one or two foreigners that are here overstaying or bribing officers to stay"...............You said I resort to the classic cliche, unless you're the police, you can't possibly know anything. Your words, not mine. Read it again. Your statement.................,"THey need to clean up all the Samui archipelago - there are dozens of foeireigners either over staying or  on illegal visas, working without permits, bribing local police etc etc Ex military are the worst to blame".................. You exaggerate quite often on this forum. You don't know that dozens are staying illegally here. That's your assumption. You quoted yourself. 

On 7/10/2025 at 1:05 PM, spidermike007 said:

This is how to keep Thailand safe and boost tourism, go after people who are overstaying their visa.

 

By all means ignore human trafficking, ignored drug smuggling, ignore corrupt policemen, ignore corrupt customs and immigration officials, ignore public and traffic safety, and ignore the dozen issues that were plaguing tourism prior to covid.

 

Just keep on marching backwards into tourism oblivion. 

damned if they do damned if they don't, are 2 penny less tourist ( in other words beggars ) the type Thailand need

Expats are immigrants - The resistance to being called immigrants reveals a deeper truth: migration language is soaked in class, race, and power dynamics. Western retirees benefit from systems that treat them differently than economic migrants from Cambodia, Myanmar, or even skilled workers from India or the Philippines. So while retirees might not see themselves as immigrants, the reality is—they are. Just ones with a more favourable label.

On 7/9/2025 at 9:09 PM, webfact said:

a 51-year-old South African, faced charges for overstaying his visa by an astonishing 1,255 days. The second individual, 30-year-old Zaw Ni Tun from Myanmar, overstayed by 510 days.

 

Idiots...

On 7/10/2025 at 7:17 AM, spidermike007 said:

I'm just saying that they could be focused on things that are far more important. And yet they don't. 

 

Massage parlors?

1 hour ago, watchcat said:

 

Massage parlors?

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