192 migrants rounded up in South in week to Christmas

Pol Colonel Pakapong Sai-ubon, superintendent at the bureau, told the press that 120 migrants face the charge of illegal entry according to the Immigration Act 1979. Some 70 others faced charges of working in Thailand without permission or working in the wrong category from what their employers registered them in. Two other two migrants were arrested due to arrest warrants: one for a rape of a minor, the other for fraud, he said.

The operations were according to the Immigration chief Police Major General Natthorn Phrosunthorn’s policy to get strict on law-breaking migrants. He urged people in the South to provide leads about foreigners and migrants who do wrong via 08-1658-8448 (24 hours).