Sa Kaew police deports 250 Cambodians who lost jobs due to new law
By The Nation

 

File photo : Cambodians were seen leaving Aranyaprathet checkpoint on June 30 after a new decree was enforced.

 

SA KAEW: -- Immigration police in the border province of Sa Kaew on Sunday detained and deported a group of 250 Cambodians whose employers terminated their work out of fear of heavy punishment from the newly implemented labour decree.

 

The workers were found at the Aranyaprathet train station and detained after they could not present travel documents.

 

They confessed to immigration officials that they had boarded a train from Bangkok to Sa Kaew as they wanted to return to their home country.

 

Their employers urged them to return home and to apply for passports before they could recruit the workers back to work. Without passports, employers would not hire them again. 

 

The new decree is aimed at managing foreign workers and involves severe punishment for employers who hire undocumented workers.

 

Officials registered the Cambodians and took their photos before deporting them at the border checkpoint.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30319714

 

 

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Humm...who will build Thailand now? 

Has Thailand pulled out of ASEAN?

Hmmm...

 

Only in Thailand do the immigration police set up a 'sting' to catch illegals on their way home.

6 minutes ago, Somtamnication said:

Humm...who will build Thailand now? 

Nobody.  The junta does not care about the country as a whole just top of the pyramid.  An elected government, like that in Malaysia, who had the exact same issue last year, handled it more carefully.  The junta/army can afford to be the bull in the china shop.   They answer to no one.  

Good to see laws being followed in Thailand at last.

 

 

A pretty straightforward task to get a passport, get legal and return to Thailand.

 

Thousands are doing that already.

Good to see laws being followed in Thailand at last.

 

 

A pretty straightforward task to get a passport, get legal and return to Thailand.

 

Thousands are doing that already.

It may be pretty straight forward in most countries, but when your born in a field 100km from a hospital in the dead of night and your family doesn't even own fridge and your parents have never left their Ampor etc etc, there is no record of your birth, and they can't even read a calendar, it starts to get quite complicated.

 

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Good to see laws being followed in Thailand at last.

 

 

A pretty straightforward task to get a passport, get legal and return to Thailand.

 

Thousands are doing that already.

 

Umh, 250 Cambodians who were trying to do just that were arrested and deported!

 

7 minutes ago, JAG said:

 

Umh, 250 Cambodians who were trying to do just that were arrested ad deported!

 

Great work by the police (not)

 

This new law is going to cause a lot of problems for businesses. I pity the illegal workers but in a way its fair to the companies that do go the legal way. Now unfair competition from companies who don't jump through the hoops is getting less.  They should have made the process easier and there should have been a grace period. 

1 hour ago, wcoast said:

It may be pretty straight forward in most countries, but when your born in a field 100km from a hospital in the dead of night and your family doesn't even own fridge and your parents have never left their Ampor etc etc, there is no record of your birth, and they can't even read a calendar, it starts to get quite complicated.

 

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The Thais manage it, I am sure the Cambo's can be equally resourceful.

1 hour ago, JAG said:

 

Umh, 250 Cambodians who were trying to do just that were arrested and deported!

 

 

They had been sacked !!

 

Deported? Don't be a drama queen..... they were going home and could hardly get a black stamp in their non-existent passports.

 

Even money says most will be back within the month.

 

Great to see Thailand enforcing a law and hitting employers hard who take advantage of illegal workers.

 
They had been sacked !!
 
Deported? Don't be a drama queen..... they were going home and could hardly get a black stamp in their non-existent passports.
 
Even money says most will be back within the month.
 
Great to see Thailand enforcing a law and hitting employers hard who take advantage of illegal workers.

You're the one being the drama queen. The headline itself said they were deported.

 
 
The Thais manage it, I am sure the Cambo's can be equally resourceful.

I think you fail to realize that Cambodia is not very developed in many aspects. They don't have the systems and infrastructure in place that Thailand has. Cambodia is quite 3rd world in many respects.

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53 minutes ago, JAG said:

 

You're the one being the drama queen. The headline itself said they were deported.

 

 

 

I think 'escorted' is more appropriate........... and no black stamps ?

53 minutes ago, wcoast said:

I think you fail to realize that Cambodia is not very developed in many aspects. They don't have the systems and infrastructure in place that Thailand has. Cambodia is quite 3rd world in many respects.

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Having been to Thailand over 30 times I do have some idea of what goes on. Indeed, parts are very 3rd world - but that will not prevent those who want passports getting them.

2 hours ago, wcoast said:

It may be pretty straight forward in most countries, but when your born in a field 100km from a hospital

Hospital? What does it have to do with getting a passport? AFAK no medical check-up or whatever is required for that. Lack of birth record can be sorted out relatively easily in Cambo. The main problem is that passport issuing fee is pretty steep there so many cannot readily afford it

1 hour ago, JAG said:

 

You're the one being the drama queen. The headline itself said they were deported.

And photos, details taken.

Hospital? What does it have to do with getting a passport? AFAK no medical check-up or whatever is required for that. Lack of birth record can be sorted out relatively easily in Cambo. The main problem is that passport issuing fee is pretty steep there so many cannot readily afford it

Seriously? I think it's fairly obvious I'm referring to birth records.

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3 hours ago, wcoast said:

It may be pretty straight forward in most countries, but when your born in a field 100km from a hospital in the dead of night and your family doesn't even own fridge and your parents have never left their Ampor etc etc, there is no record of your birth, and they can't even read a calendar, it starts to get quite complicated.

 

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2 hours ago, Jip99 said:

 

 

The Thais manage it, I am sure the Cambo's can be equally resourceful.

Wcoast is right, a lot of Cambodian don't have ID cards birth certificate nothing, also getting a passport is expensive and drawn out, 45 days and 110 US $ is the cheapest, you can get one in a week for about 289 US. 

Attention Thai people. Stop picking your noses and do some work. There are holes to dig beds to make and toilets to clean.

While it's hard not to feel sorry for these guys being sacked and shown the door, Thailand has only added to their misery by turning a blind eye in the first place, no doubt with a little help from the BiB.  

 

They were once welcomed, to do the jobs that Thais didn't want to do, but now there's a different agenda.  The problem is that Thais still don't want to do these jobs!

 

I feel another government u-turn coming up.

4 hours ago, wcoast said:

It may be pretty straight forward in most countries, but when your born in a field 100km from a hospital in the dead of night and your family doesn't even own fridge and your parents have never left their Ampor etc etc, there is no record of your birth, and they can't even read a calendar, it starts to get quite complicated.

 

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Then unfortunately that person shouldn't be permitted to work abroad.

 

If this is the norm for most of them then perhaps Thailand should offer some sort of travel ID, issued at the border, so they can come here to work. 

1 hour ago, Jip99 said:

 

Having been to Thailand over 30 times I do have some idea of what goes on. Indeed, parts are very 3rd world - but that will not prevent those who want passports getting them.

being 30 times in Thailand doesn´t prevent you for writting stupid comment, people have to get passport in Myamar, and this is everything but not easy, take months and costs a lot of money, many people belong to different ethnics, who not have the same rights like others. 

1 hour ago, trigpoint said:

a lot of Cambodian don't have ID cards birth certificate nothing

Have witnessed them sorting that out quite easily when needed (and can state whatever birth date they fancy). But steep pasport issuing fee remains a problem. For some reason it is significantly higher than in many other jurisdictions. About $100 (don't remember the exact figure) and long waiting, or more than that but faster (in a few increments)

5 hours ago, wcoast said:

It may be pretty straight forward in most countries, but when your born in a field 100km from a hospital in the dead of night and your family doesn't even own fridge and your parents have never left their Ampor etc etc, there is no record of your birth, and they can't even read a calendar, it starts to get quite complicated.

 

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Well said, it's always easy when you come from the west and you take so many things for granted, like you say, your parents registering your birth. A little more difficult doing that when you are 20 or 30 years old and in many cases your parents are dead or you don't know who they are. I feel for them

On 03/07/2017 at 0:48 PM, chickenrunCM said:

being 30 times in Thailand doesn´t prevent you for writting stupid comment, people have to get passport in Myamar, and this is everything but not easy, take months and costs a lot of money, many people belong to different ethnics, who not have the same rights like others. 

 

 

Apologies... the reference was to Cambodia (where I have visited 30+ times). 

 

I accept that Burma is a different kettle of fish.