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Thai police arrest nearly 100 Laotian illegal immigrants

YASOTHON: -- Nearly one hundred Laotian workers intending to exercise their citizenship rights in their homeland--and celebrate Songkran--were arrested by Thai police Wednesday as illegal immigrants.

The arrested 95 Laotian illegal immigrants were apprehended in Thailand's northeastern border province of Yasothon, enroute to the Mekong River border with Laos.

The immigrants were detailed by Thai authorities when a bus and a pick-up truck they had boarded in Bangkok were stopped by Yasothon highway police at a provincial police checkpoint at around 5am.

According to the police, the group of Laotians, mainly illegally employed workers, were traveling back to their hometown Savannakhet in Laos for the Songkran festival celebration intending to spend the long

holiday there until the first of May, when Laos parliamentary elections are scheduled.

The Laotian workers had hoped to exercise their voting rights in their homeland before returning to work in Thailand.

All 95 illegal workers are being held for further police information recording before being deported back to Laos.

--TNA 2006-04-12

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Thai police arrest nearly 100 Laotian illegal immigrants

YASOTHON: -- Nearly one hundred Laotian workers intending to exercise their citizenship rights in their homeland--and celebrate Songkran--were arrested by Thai police Wednesday as illegal immigrants.

The arrested 95 Laotian illegal immigrants were apprehended in Thailand's northeastern border province of Yasothon, enroute to the Mekong River border with Laos.

The immigrants were detailed by Thai authorities when a bus and a pick-up truck they had boarded in Bangkok were stopped by Yasothon highway police at a provincial police checkpoint at around 5am.

According to the police, the group of Laotians, mainly illegally employed workers, were traveling back to their hometown Savannakhet in Laos for the Songkran festival celebration intending to spend the long

holiday there until the first of May, when Laos parliamentary elections are scheduled.

The Laotian workers had hoped to exercise their voting rights in their homeland before returning to work in Thailand.

All 95 illegal workers are being held for further police information recording before being deported back to Laos.

--TNA 2006-04-12

Guess i should hire a new maid then :o

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