webfact Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Arrests Of Visa Scofflaws Good For Tourism: Big Joke By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter Two foreigners react as Lt. Gen. Surachate Hakparn looks on Friday morning at Bangkok’s Montien Riverside Hotel. BANGKOK — Nearly 500 foreigners were arrested this week on visa violations in the latest raid police said early Friday morning will benefit tourism. Immigration Bureau police commander Lt. Gen. Surachate Hakparn paraded the newly arrested foreigners at 1am on Friday through the parking lot of Bangkok’s Montien Riverside hotel starting, announcing that they had netted a total of 490 foreigners overnight. “We’ve been working through the new year,” Surachate said. “As of now, in the entire land, there are zero overstays.” Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/crime-crime/2019/01/11/arrests-of-visa-scofflaws-good-for-tourism-big-joke/ -- © Copyright Khaosod English 2019-01-11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pib Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Quote “We’ve been working through the new year,” Surachate said. “As of now, in the entire land, there are zero overstays.” Yea, right. Big Joke has "repeatedly" said there are no more over-stayers left in Thailand....the bad guys have all been caught....but we keep seeing these reports almost weekly of more over-stayers being caught. I'm confused...makes me feel like I'm in the Ground Hog Day movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksidedog Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 7 minutes ago, webfact said: “As of now, in the entire land, there are zero overstays.” Well he has that wrong. I know two people personally who are on overstay, who he hasn't caught up with yet. Lovely as it is to hear his ramblings, perhaps he should think before setting his mouth into gear and coming out with such stupid comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreeEyedRaven Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 12 minutes ago, webfact said: “We’ve been working through the new year,” Surachate said. “As of now, in the entire land, there are zero overstays.” He had previously told us they would all be clear before the New Year began, though you have to take your hat off to his efficiency in rounding up the last 490, without letting any at all slip through the net. Got to wonder how he will explain any more he catches in the future, without admitting todays statement was pure rot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatOngo Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 16 minutes ago, webfact said: Arrests Of Visa Scofflaws Good For Tourism: Big Joke Arrests of scammers and cheaters would do even more for tourism! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE1 Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 He should have said , " as far as I am aware as of now, in the entire land, there are zero overstays.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommysboy Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 A confusing mass of exaggerated claims with poor reasoning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crees Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Our local Thai Immigration warned my family, stay away from border towns and ex-pats … that was twenty years ago. We listened and never looked back, we love our life in Thailand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losworld Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Have to chuckle at how much talk about tourism and keeping it running and half the pictured police are wearing masks because the air is so polluted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pib Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 There is an article in the 11 Jan 19 Bangkok Post giving detailed breakout of the nationalities caught in the crackdown. Only around 10 were from western countries. Over 95% were from countries like Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia....mostly working in Thailand without a visa/work permit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkidlad Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Catch, arrest and deport by all means, of course. Parade them around like this? Not a good idea. This will definitely put some tourists off or make them feel less welcome. I know, I know - people who have done nothing wrong have nothing to fear. But that’s not always how life works. How people should feel and how people really feel can often be two different things. I think they should be working along the lines of how people really feel. It’s more realistic. If I had seen these photo shoots when I was a newbie tourist here, I’d have felt uncomfortable by it. Maybe it’s just me, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 14 minutes ago, NE1 said: He should have said , " as far as I am aware as of now, in the entire land, there are zero overstays.” Try looking at it another way. As from midnight tonight visas valid until midnight tonight means the holders will be new overstayers, and the next day and so on. ???????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannot Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 yeah but unfortunately as the powers that be are retards, i know of a decent guy from japan who got deported due to a visa agent who did not do what he was paid for. The guy was not poor, had a company and entrusted his work permit renewal to the agent who DID NOT do it but kept the money. Work permit 3 days overdue. Immigration "tipped off" and came to the Co. The end result was he closed the company, 6 Thai workers lost their jobs he sold off all the equipment or gave it away and moved the whole co to the Phillipines where he doesnt get treated like a piece of shit in a detention centre. My Wife had to help him thru all this nonsense over a 2-3 week period because "rules are rules", the parent co in Japan will not be doing any business in Thailand again. Through a friend of hers she got to see him out of hours with contact at the detention centre to help him, no easy feat in itself. Overstayers are not all "bad guys" with no money, the usual stupid childish talk of immigration to appease the brainwashed masses that Thailand for the Thais is the only way. The good side he has invited us to japan all expenses paid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannot Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 11 minutes ago, Pib said: There is an article in the 11 Jan 19 Bangkok Post giving detailed breakout of the nationalities caught in the crackdown. Only around 10 were from western countries. Over 95% were from countries like Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia....mostly working in Thailand without a visa/work permit. That and Nigeria and African poorer nations but by far most will be Burma Cambodia etc these folk have nothing to lose if caught Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odysseus123 Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 The whole place is stuffed. Autocratic little generals running around with unearned fruit salad and stupid Reichswehr hats-and they just lerv them stupid Reichswehr hats. The only people that are effected by this incessantly useless and banal piece of stupidity is the poor Burmese,Cambodians and Laotions. If I ever want to return to a country full of cardboard cutouts of Vietnam era goons-I will let you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadbury Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 31 minutes ago, mommysboy said: A confusing mass of exaggerated claims with poor reasoning. The description of this pin-up boy fits someone else we all know. There must be a surfeit of these military type showmen running the Country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAG Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 I should imagine any tourists staying at the Bangkok Montien Riverside hotel would have been less than impressed with a paramilitary display outside their bedroom windows at 1 am! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katipo Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 “We’ve been working through the new year,” Surachate said. “As of now, in the entire land, there are zero overstays.” ...until next week's round-up, when there will again be "zero overstayers". I want to like this guy (kind of), but he's got to temper his all too common habit amongst senior officials of making premature proclamations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outsider Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Surachate said. “As of now, in the entire land, there are zero overstays.” Still insists on living up to his name. Another thing - why do Thai officials love to shoot themselves in BOTH FEET??? Don't they feel stupid in any way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmh2009 Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 So does that mean the operation is finished, stopped, closed??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammieuk1 Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Unfortunately the entire county will become a jail if he ever gets demoted to the department of embezzlement ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayduke Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 13 minutes ago, Katipo said: I want to like this guy (kind of), but he's got to temper his all too common habit amongst senior officials of making premature proclamations. Whenever I find myself tempted to like the Big BJ...I just remind myself whose butt he kisses every...single...day. Works for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pib Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 1 minute ago, pmh2009 said: So does that mean the operation is finished, stopped, closed??? Yes!!!....until the next one....until Big Joke feels the need for more publicity (which shouldn't take long). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcnx Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 1 hour ago, NE1 said: He should have said , " as far as I am aware as of now, in the entire land, there are zero overstays.” I’ll get you $1000 if anyone goes to the airport right now there will be a parade of overstayers paying on the way out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter14 Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Well those so called overstays... are part of the economy . they eat spend and shop ! Hello ! Thai depends on them too ! monkey immigration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NextStationBangkok Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 1 hour ago, Pib said: Yea, right. Big Joke has "repeatedly" said there are no more over-stayers left in Thailand....the bad guys have all been caught....but we keep seeing these reports almost weekly of more over-stayers being caught. I'm confused...makes me feel like I'm in the Ground Hog Day movie. 2018 overstay batch is over. This is 2019 fresh batch! Look at the picture, they used ambulance service to catch these guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunFred Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Thai mathematics 2 plus 2 equals six. Linking tourism to overstays is like comparing a hand grenade to an atom bomb. Make up the rules as you go along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickymouse1 Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Zero ? Good Man.... Good 4 Tourism? How? The guys in masks look really silly. Very weird picture though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickymouse1 Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 7 minutes ago, peter14 said: Well those so called overstays... are part of the economy . they eat spend and shop ! Hello ! Thai depends on them too ! monkey immigration How could you say that....we all did not know???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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