"Confusion arose when the Thai Labor Ministry requested Cabinet approval to relax the repatriation of illegal immigrants. Earlier, the Ministry had announced that the labourers would be forced out by May 1. Labour Minister Trairong Suwankhiri, in a clear reversal of his earlier stand that some o?ne million illegal labourers in Thailand must be expelled by May 1, said it is impossible to push back all of them ?in o?ne day.? Under an April 28 Cabinet resolution, Burmese, Cambodian and Laotian workers were allowed to continue working in 13 border provinces in Thailand, but were forbidden to stay in the country overnight..."