Phuket to open emergency migrant-worker registration centre

Premkamon Ketsara

 

Officials were ordered not to take any legal action against illegal migrant workers or their employers during the six-month reprieve ordered by Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha. Photo: Premkamon Ketsara

 

PHUKET: -- The Phuket Governor has pleaded for migrant workers and employers not to panic and the new Phuket Immigration chief has ordered officials not to take any legal action against such people during the six-month moratorium on the current crackdown on illegal workers.

 

The news was delivered at at a meeting at Phuket Provincial Hall on Saturday (July 8), when Governor Norraphat Plodthong announced that an emergency migrant-worker registration centre will be set up to register such workers.

 

“A message to all illegal migrant workers and their employers: please hold on,” Gov Norraphat said.

 

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What happens after 6 months do they then arrest everyone who stayed on illegally or will they section 44 it again. It beggers belief that they didn't realise what would happen before they introduced the new measures.

A message to the slaves "please stay"

 

Slave masters win again!