Immigration crackdown: Thousands of foreigners charged for illegally entering Thailand

[manarak]

In my country such a crackdown would be decried as racist by the progressives. Actually one just was.

except the definition "Progressive" is self-defined .The loony liberal unintelligent

funnily enough, "liberals" are always bashed - in the USA, liberals are seen as similar to european socialists, while in Europe, socialists bash "liberals" as being too capitalist ! LOL

[uktony]

Bank manager at 23? What did you thing would happen?

[ratcatcher]

I can only assume that a lot of these people were from neighbouring countries who entered, and worked, here illegally.

I see a lot of African faces in the photos.

Is Africa a neighboring country now?

Perhaps these guys are members of West African football teams, here on holiday.

[mcfish]

And the Nigerian population on suk steadily increases...

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[mikiea]

A week long crackdown that ended today, with more than 9000 arrested? How is it possible that nobody knew anything and that this story is only breaking now?

To find all these people who were charged, immigration surely had to have encountered enough legitimate foreigners in this crackdown that averaged more than 1000 arrests per day.

Where are more than 9000 being detained?

this is way to fishy a story . and how is it the starting and ending times of this round up are published ? are the police that shallow ? never heard of any crack down . where are the bad guys being kept ? they pay a tea money fine and were let go ? inquiring minds need to know .........................

[rethaier]

Why is it Pattaya gets all the quality tourists !!

maybe it is because Pattaya is such a quality city.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

There is a much better article on this subject in today's/25 Oct 15, 7:22pm, Bangkok Post titled, "Tough New Overstay Rules Go Before PM" which talks the crackdown and implementing 1, 5, or 10 year Thailand entry bans for overstays.

FWIW, I think the BKk Post article on this subject is pretty crap as well.

Zero mention of how/where the authorities are detaining 9000 people supposedly arrested in one week. And likewise, zero mention of what's going to become of them in the wake of their supposed arrests.

Is it too much for the dimwits to ask... Hey, what happened to all 9000 of them???

Edited October 26, 2015 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[oldsailor35]

A bank manager at 23 ! she must have been something special .

[steven100]

Why is it Pattaya gets all the quality tourists !!

maybe it is because Pattaya is such a quality city.

quality city wasn't the word i'd use ......... but good comeback

[chilli42]

I have always thought, if you are going to commit a crime make it worth the risk/punishment. So B400 million fits the brief but B4 million? A thief and an idiot.

BTW, the 9,000 is clearly a flat out lie (misinformation).

[PeterWolf]

Quite frankly, I am at a complete loss as to why this story or the related crackdown on Illegal immigrants into Thailand provokes so much suspicion in all of you. Maybe you should all go fishing or go to the beach or something.

[PeterWolf]

How, exactly, does this impact your lives?

Edited October 26, 2015 by PeterWolf

[WinnieTheKhwai]

Immigrations crackdowns certainly seem to make a lot of TV regulars very excited and nervous.

Yes, because to actually get a number like 9000 that basically implies razzias and spot checks of papers everywhere. (That nobody heard about it while it was going on means that out of 9000 this is likely 8950 from a labor effort rounding up illegal workers, to which a handful were added from the unrelated interpol warrant for the Russian chick, plus a quick sweep of some African areas. And there you go.

Also it's from The Nation. They will have missed half of it, and from the remaining half got half of that wrong. Possibly the Little Africa sweep was one week. But who knows; again, it's The Nation.

When you cater to people who need to pay for sex, you get a lot of tourist who need to pay for sex.

Maybe that is why???

Or may be because people with money go to fun places, instead of farms in the middle of the jungle

Interesting comment,

but it can not be for me.

I have the means and time to travel wherever and whenever I desire.

But the sleazy sex pits of Thailand are not on my list.

Jesus.. This is about a 23 year old Russian chick and her boyfriend on the run. Where do you suggest they go? Somewhere where they stand out a lot more, or a very convenient place like Pattaya where there are already thousands of Russians living, visiting and being catered to?

Edited October 26, 2015 by WinnieTheKhwai

[dotpoom]

Anyone with a bit of imagination out there can think of new words to replace "scumbags and quality tourists"? So "old hat and boreing" when wheeled out every time we have a story such as this.

Edited October 26, 2015 by dotpoom

[Time Traveller]

Good they have had a crackdown. Just shows how many scum bags are in the country

Don't worry, soon you'll be under suspicion as well.

[Benmart]

It's not for me to ask why there are so many of this, or so many of that. It's not for me to call those arrested, various names and assign them labels.

Keeping my own affairs in order is my only business. It makes my life so much more enjoyable and less complicated.

[Caprelo]

They can catch the people when they go to do a 90 day stamp, a renewal, an extensions, an exit, etc. The officers are alerted to the fake stamp info. So the people who really never exited the country, they were told the only the passport had gone but maybe the passport never really left as well. So the entry stamp is fake and this would be consider entering illegally. If you consider how many people go to immigration or exit daily 9,000 may not be so hard to believe.

[tonysilly]

This is silly. Crack down the Thai Police and the immigration office. Ok Mai

[Equalizer]

8898 Cambodian, Myanmar and 2 Russians. Like, come on, who is kidding who here!!!!!

[metisdead]

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[Shaunduhpostman]

Doesn't make any sense to me at all. How is it that suddenly there are all of these people who have crossed into Thailand circumventing border crossings by being ferried across rivers in the middle of the night, mucking through swamps, slashing their way through the wilderness etc.?

That 9000 have been caught in seemingly one fell swoop suggests that Thailand is having a sort of Hungarian refugee crisis, that they are beseiged with people who are desperate to get here.

My guess is that either there was some shoddy translation and reporting with plenty of missing details or the police are not bothering to mention that the 9,000+ are in violation of a range of immigration laws.

[Suradit69]

Hmmmmm.....9000 people that need to Eat,sleep and drink...gonna be deported ..=. Gonna be a lot of Thai's getting no income!!!!

"Gonna be a lot of Thai's [sic] getting no income!!!!"

Another unfathomable comment. How many Thais would have to close their businesses or would get "no income" from employment because a bunch of people who didn't have the economic wherewithal to be in the country legally disappeared? There's 67 plus million people in Thailand and over 6 million in Bangkok and the ebb & flow of tourists who actually have money to spend isn't affected by this lot.

I guess extending your logic they should just throw open the borders and the good times would be sure to follow.

[mikemac]

9,000 !!! BS ! That figure came from the same place that the mob that conducts the polls in Thailand gets them, out of someone's bum.

But regardless the figure I hope they close their TVF accounts when they deport them.

[JAG]

firstly i do not live in pattaya ,but i have been a few times ,and not everyone there is a drunk or a sex tourist ,bank robber etc. so why keep harping on about it ,does it make up for the fact your skint and living in the boonies with the love of your life who you met in a bank or charity diner at the dusit

what a load of crap , let he who is innocent throw the first stone ,nearly every one who posts on thai visa is married to a hi so well there's not a chance a so called hi so would be marrying a farang ,

I wouldn't say that every one is married or even married to a Hi so that contributes on TV, however I've got ta duck out and take the kids to private collage school in the Pink Bentley , bye.

A pink Bentley - what impeccable Hi So taste sir!

[joboss]

Some people will do almost anything to get a free t-shirt!

I wonder what it costs for 9000 t-shirts?

I bet that you can buy a Tshirt on the soi now.

Maybe some clueless tourists will be spotted wearing them.

haha! whole busloads of Chinese..

[tigermoth]

9000 in a week. What a load of bullshit. The cops don't have the resorces to arrest more than a 1000 a week.

[English 1]

That sounds impossible re the numbers.

[tonysilly]

This is silly. Crack down the Thai Police and the immigration office. Ok Mai

[Vandadavid]

I dealt it

I think they were lucky to catch 100... What is illegally entering your head lines are wrong

They went thru passport control so it was not illegal at all

They must have been busy 9000 1 week please even god not work that fast and these are Thais

[alien365]

Well it looks quite easy to catch them; they all wear the same shirt.