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Thai soldiers and police arrested 246 Burmese migrants in six border areas across four districts of Kanchanaburi, a Western province, yesterday and today. The migrants said they paid job brokers between 15,000 and 25,000 baht to get them jobs in several Thai provinces. Thai authorities also caught four guides helping the migrants, and charged them with assisting illegal border crossers. Out of the 246 migrants caught, 156 were men, and 108 were women. A representative of a migrant labour development network estimates that Thai authorities caught 80,000 illegal border crossers last year, most of them Burmese. He also estimates that […]

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1 minute ago, Lowseasonlover said:

There is a small matter of an assassination in Phuket to deal with is that not more important than a bunch of Burmese looking for work

Yes dear. Some of the police are working on that and some are working at the border, ok?😀

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3 hours ago, Thaiger said:

Out of the 246 migrants caught, 156 were men, and 108 were women.

Once again, maths not exactly a strong point with reporting in Thailand.
Or maybe they weren't sure with some of them and counted them twice.

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17 hours ago, Thaiger said:

as the country is suffering a labour shortage.

So many highly skilled foreigners would like to work here, but it's a to damn complicated process ! But on second thought, they might only want low skilled people who do the dirty work the Thais don't want, high skilled jobbs are for Thais.

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The real criminals are the lowlifes who profiteer from people smuggling. There's no money back guarantee. This capture should be widely publicised so that people think twice before handing over their money on a futile exercise. Couldn't the Thai Government simply have a migration program that makes these profiteers useless and redundant?

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16 hours ago, Soidog said:

Makes you wonder for everyone they apprehend, how many slip by? 

A LOT of them, same with drugs smuggled into Thailand, for a tonne seized, 1000 of them go through. Apart from being humanly impossible to control over 2400 km long border covered with rivers, forests, jungle, etc..., this goes pretty much worldwide, so with the level of corruption in this country, one can imagine those numbers being "slightly" higher. Showing 200+ unlucky poor sods caught in the news, like a tonne of drugs seized, is purely the political message "we are doing something", and surely in some cases the work of honest officials who are simply doing their job (yes even in Thailand there are some), but really, nothing else.

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