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Thai Attacks On Immigrant Workers



/* Written 11:57 am  May  7, 1994 by lvpsf@xxxxxxxxxxx in igc:labr.asia */
/* ---------- "Thai Attacks On Immigrant Workers" ---------- */
THAI CRACKDOWN ON IMMIGRANT WORKERS
04/26/94  
   More than 600 foreigners, mostly Indians, have been arrested 
over  
the last five days for working illegally in Thailand, that 
country's  
Immigration Bureau announced.  
   Those arrested included 566 Indians, 2 Bangladeshis and 79  
Burmese, said a statement from the bureau, which is part of the  
police department. They had entered Thailand using tourist visas 
and  
had been peddling products such as clothing, nuts, Indian 
pancakes  
and mosquito nets without work permits, it said.  
   The bureau cracked down after Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai  
complained about illegal foreign laborers and after members of 
the  
public supplied tips on their activities, the bureau said. 
Because  
they had held valid visas, these people previously had been fined
 
 
and released when they were caught selling their wares. However, 
the  
bureau decided to arrest them and cancel their visas to eliminate
 
 
any threat they posed to the economy and relieve police of the  
burden of arresting them repeatedly, it added. (AP)