Pattaya Immigration cancels visas and deports 64 Sri Lankan’s

PATTAYA:--Chonburi Immigration Police detained 64 Sri Lankan Nationals who are thought to be part of a well-organized transnational human trafficking operation.

Immigration Officers were made aware of the Sri Lankan’s who had arrived in Thailand on correct visas. The group were due to be transported to the Laem Chabang Port where they would be illegally transported out of the country to a further unspecified destination.

It is common that Thailand is used as a hub for people trafficking and the Laem Chabang Port is often used to smuggle the Sri Lankan’s out of the country.

Full story:http://www.pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/68594/pattaya-immigration-cancels-visas-deports-64-sri-lankans/

-- Pattaya One 2012-12-19

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ON their way to the UK i suppose where they would have been given a free house social security and a job cash in hand.

Hmmmm ! Another HUB for Thailand

“Ceylon down the line” for Illegal immigrants

Pattaya: Regional and local Immigration officers, working to the words of Mr. Lionel Ritchie, plan to deport “en mass” the 63 Sri Lanka nationals discovered in the region, as they were found waiting for their “fixer” to move them to their final destination.

Thailand, used as a stepping stone to their “unknown destination”, the 64 were rounded up in the region by immigration police , as they were due to be forwarded as “cheap labour” via Lam Chabang port to an, as yet, unknown country.

The authorities were notified, by worried residents, of a growing number of foreign nationals moving into neighbourhoods including a 3 storey town house and even a resort, and living in cramped conditions. Investigators discovered that the 64, spread around the region in “safe houses” were in Thailand on legal visas which had been arranged by human traffickers, keen to move them out of the country via the container port.

Authorities found that a Thai woman was taking care of their everyday needs as they waited for a further 36 to arrive, making up the “order” for 100 men and women.

Full story:http://www.pattaya103.com/back-to-ceylon-immigrants/

--Pattaya 103 FM 2012-12-19

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Next time they will organize the "safe housing" better, more widespread to cut out possible suspicion.

Just a speed pump in the delivery of the human goods!

ON their way to the UK i suppose where they would have been given a free house social security and a job cash in hand.

Change the record pal.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need (or needs)"

ON their way to the UK i suppose where they would have been given a free house social security and a job cash in hand.

Change the record pal.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need (or needs)"

Good luck to them just so long as they don't end up in Britain, is that nicer?

With all the work in the UAE theyd struggle not to make a few quid extra there, only a banana boats ride away.

Does anyone know how many HUBS there are now in Thailand? Seems to be a hub for everything. It would be interesting to compile a list of all the HUBS, at least it would be amusing!

“Ceylon down the line” for Illegal immigrants

Regional and local Immigration officers, working to the words of Mr. Lionel Ritchie

Please, pass me my corset, for I fear my sides have split.

Does anyone know how many HUBS there are now in Thailand? Seems to be a hub for everything. It would be interesting to compile a list of all the HUBS, at least it would be amusing!

No it wouldn't! well past it's use by date.

ON their way to the UK i suppose where they would have been given a free house social security and a job cash in hand.

Change the record pal.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need (or needs)"

Good luck to them just so long as they don't end up in Britain, is that nicer?

With all the work in the UAE theyd struggle not to make a few quid extra there, only a banana boats ride away.

More likely Xmas Island for Oz , more pay then Australian Penshioners ,plus phone,house,legal reps etc.etc

ON their way to the UK i suppose where they would have been given a free house social security and a job cash in hand.

Change the record pal.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need (or needs)"

Good luck to them just so long as they don't end up in Britain, is that nicer?

With all the work in the UAE theyd struggle not to make a few quid extra there, only a banana boats ride away.

More likely Xmas Island for Oz , more pay then Australian Penshioners ,plus phone,house,legal reps etc.etc

From the OP "they were due to be forwarded as “cheap labour”. Don't think immigration detention camp in Australia meets that criteria. In any case the new “no-advantage” principle is to be applied to the overflow of unauthorised arrivals brought to Australia. The principle requires asylum-seekers to wait for a refugee visa for as long as they would have if they had waited offshore to be settled through official channels.

Could be Korea or Japan or Malaysia.

Either way, it is no coincidence that this kind of loud, supposedly bold action is well-reported as Thailand has been pushing to get out of the Tier 2 human trafficking US watch list.

Human trafficking on a major scale requires the involvement of corrupt police and immigration officials and involves a lot of bucks.

Next time the copyright issue is raised on the international news, expect to see a government minister driving a tarmac rolling machine over some cd's. Media-focused [in]action is the name of the game.