Illegal job seekers arrested near Myanmar border

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PUBLISHED: 19 Feb 2025 at 16: 27

Illegal migrants, men and women from Myanmar, are rounded up at a forest in Thong Pha Phum district of Kanchanaburi province in the early hours of Wednesday. (Photo: Piyarach Chongcharoen)
In the earlier days of Wednesday, illegal immigrants from Myanmar, both men and women, are detained at a forest in the Thong Pha Phum city of Kanchanaburi state. ( Photo: Piyarach Chongcharoen )

In the Thong Pha Phum region on Wednesday, 45 improper migrants from Myanmar who were looking for work in Thailand or Malaysia were detained.

According to the police, they admitted giving brokers up to 70, 000 ringgit each for jobs promised to them in Thailand’s or Malaysia’s inside regions. &nbsp,

According to information that outlawed job seekers were being smuggled in by ship across the bridge tank and would get at Ban Khanun Khee wharf, a group of police, soldiers, and local officials were dispatched to Vajiralongkorn dam in Thong Pha Phum district around 1.30am.

District attorney Chakrit Tanphiroon claimed that they discovered a pickup truck with Kanchanaburi license plates was now waiting there when they arrived at the pier. &nbsp,

The delivery driver instantly fled, abandoning the vehicle. The pickup’s passengers included a significant number of men and women who had just departed the area. They were then taken into custody.

Authorities said 45 people were arrested. All had left Myanmar and entered Thailand without authorization. They claimed they had not had any meal and had only slept a few hours for a few days because they were exhausted.

They were given food and water by the imprisoning group.

The detainees walked to a wharf behind a church where 4 or 5 vessels were moored during questioning and claimed that they had been brought into Thailand along a healthy border crossing in the Sangkhla Buri district by an interpreter.

They boarded the canoes, which led them to Ban Khanun Khee Pier, where a delivery vehicle was waiting for them.

Some of them received job promises, some in the interior provinces of Thailand, and others in Malaysia.

Those wanting function in Thailand had each paid agents in Myanmar 13, 000-15, 000 ringgit in costs, depending on the distance to their offices. The price for work in Malaysia was 70, 000 ringgit each.

All were taken to the Thong Pha Phum authorities place for legitimate action and subsequent relocation to Myanmar. &nbsp,

Forty-five Myanmar nationals are taken to Thong Pha Phum district, Kanchanaburi for illegal entry. (Photo: Piyarach Chongcharoen)

The 45 Myanmar citizens after their imprisonment in Thong Pha Phum area, Kanchanaburi, for unlawful access. ( Photo: Piyarach Chongcharoen )