Thai troopers and police have arrested 246 Burmese migrants in 6 border areas throughout four districts of Kanchanaburi, a Western province, yesterday and today. The migrants say they paid job brokers between 15,000 and 25,000 baht to get them jobs in several Thai provinces.
Verify caught four guides serving to the migrants, and charged them with assisting unlawful border crossers. Out of the 246 migrants caught, 156 had been men, and 108 have been girls.
A representative of a migrant labour development community estimates that Thai authorities caught eighty,000 illegal border crossers final yr, most of them Burmese. He also estimates that as many as a hundred,000 most likely got passed authorities, and at the second are working in Thailand’s major provinces.
It’s frequent for authorities to arrest massive groups of migrants in operations like this all over Thailand. Last month, troopers caught 31 Burmese migrants on the Thailand-Malaysia border.
Thai PM Prayut mentioned final week that “all parties involved” ought to work to register workers from neighbouring nations so that they are often employed legally in Thailand, because the country is suffering a labour shortage..