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No place to hide: Immigration’s new biometric system nabs 45,000 overstaying foreigners in Thailand


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6 minutes ago, Nicknoodle said:

I seem to recall that last year they arrested and deported all overstayers! Back then there were apparently hundreds arrested daily. Everyone knew it was fake news! Perhaps that’s why Big Joke lost his job because he wasn’t actually doing anything! 

Oh no..he arrested 437,000 Nigerians..

118,437 Burmese,

97,219 Cambodians..

6 from Crewe (UK),27 from Tomsk (or was it Omsk?) and one from Birmingham,Alabama.

 

Sheesh,some people are never happy. ????

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Just now, Pisdjuk said:

Excellent! Thailand should not be known as a transit camp for foreign criminals and terrorists!

How many terrorists transit through Thailand? 

 

Ones who did , turned into ass bandits hanging around Arab bars filled with ladyboys.

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I imagine that it is very easy to hide in any african country if u are on the interpol list and have money.. if u have loads of cash dubai and many other middle eastern country roll up the red carpet for u regardless if u are a mass murderer a bankster or a child porn ring operator...there u are welcome...

th has the easy image but i think not so easy after all...

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2 hours ago, Pedrogaz said:

I have an instinctive dislike of people who use 'Big' as a prefix in their names. That aside, I have been looking for the 45,000 'nabbed'.

Nab means arrest, apprehend or capture. Have 45,000 people been arrested, apprehended or captured? Why talk about 8 people arrested over 3 days when you have 45,000 to go for? Why not a photo-op picture with the whole 45,000 people arrested?

Sickening PR to justify a stupid system. To get people through the queues in Suvarnabhumi they need to reduce the transaction time at the window, not extend it.

If adding a minute to one’s queing  time at the airport adds much more security, I’m all for it. This system is not stupid as it will gradually weed out people who were previously denied entrance, internationally known pedophiles and other criminals including terrorists. Same system is in use in many countries in the West and it works well. 

 

I arrived to Suvarnnabhumi few weeks ago and had no long queuing time and just friendly smiles from the officer behind the counter.

 

 

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10 minutes ago, BestB said:

How many terrorists transit through Thailand? 

 

Ones who did , turned into ass bandits hanging around Arab bars filled with ladyboys.

How would I know how many terrorists transit through? From what I just read people coming from Middle East countries with Swedish passports were stopped here  thanks to the new system, so you can think what you want...

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3 minutes ago, Pisdjuk said:

How would I know how many terrorists transit through? From what I just read people coming from Middle East countries with Swedish passports were stopped here  thanks to the new system, so you can think what you want...

How would you know ? So you do not know.?  And if you do not know , why would you post saying it’s good that terrorists can not transit through Thailand ?

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12 minutes ago, Pisdjuk said:

If adding a minute to one’s queing  time at the airport adds much more security, I’m all for it. This system is not stupid as it will gradually weed out people who were previously denied entrance, internationally known pedophiles and other criminals including terrorists. Same system is in use in many countries in the West and it works well. 

 

I arrived to Suvarnnabhumi few weeks ago and had no long queuing time and just friendly smiles from the officer behind the counter.

 

 

Is it possible there were no queues and all smiles because there were no tourists ? Low season , dead, no one coming ?

 

and again back to terrorists nonsense . So how many terrorists transit through or go through immigration ? 

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7 hours ago, neeray said:

TAT will just find another way to BS the numbers.

I fail to see how being the HUB of biometrics will bring " Thailand recognition from authorities around the world as a place with international standards". A drop in the bucket in the overall big picture.

Congratulations on getting up to speed with the rest of the world. Even Cambodia was taking finger prints years ago. 
 

I’m sure the international community applauds Thailand for such ground breaking standards. Then laughs at them once again for everything else they do.

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   Although using fake passports to travel is technically illegal, some of the examples cited in the above Naew Na story appear to be otherwise honest people desperately seeking escape for themselves and family from horrible conditions, and perhaps worse, in Syria where terrible atrocities are occurring, or in Iran and elsewhere civilians are suffering. 

 

   After all, during the Nazi horrors of mid-20th Century Europe, diplomats and other officials of many countries provided or procured fake passports or misleading travel visas and documents to Jews and others trying to escape to safety. 

 

   Today, they are honored as righteous heroes for risking their own careers, and sometimes worse if discovered.  These include Raoul Wallenberg (Swedish), Aristides de Sousa Mendes (Portuguese), Ho Feng-Shan (Chinese), and Paul Grüninger (Swiss), among many others.

   See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescuers_of_Jews_during_the_Holocaust#Leaders_and_diplomats

 

   So we ought not be so judgmental about some of those who produce and use fake, illegal documents for humanitarian reasons.  Who among us would not do the same for our families in such circumstances as Europe eight decades ago or even now in many parts of the Middle East?

 

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8 hours ago, mikebell said:

That's the bottom line.  All laws in Thailand are for the benefit of the enforcers not the country.

Sounds very much like a a lot of the motoring fines and  hidden cameras in Australia fines for driving over the speed limit by a couple of kms per hour, overstaying a parking meter by a couple of minutes, school zones the list is endless

As a matter of interest which laws in which  countries benefit the people who break the laws?

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8 hours ago, thequietman said:

On the 'down side', criminals and other dodgy people will now be aware that Thailand is not the easy transit point that it once was and so will be using somewhere else.

 

This will surely affect the 'tourist' numbers as TAT count all the passengers, even those in transit.

 

Numbers should fall which I am sure, TAT will be concerned about as they can no longer BS about the numbers. ???? 

"No longer BS" 

Ah hem, you are talking about TAT aren't you. 

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8 hours ago, mikebell said:

That's the bottom line.  All laws in Thailand are for the benefit of the enforcers not the country.

That is not the bottom line. Fines are in the first place used to finance other similar projects.  These are paid by the citizens of a country through taxes. 
Why should the fines get redistributed to people, so that the government just can take it away again?

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7 hours ago, PattayaGuy2019 said:

People on this site are always bashing Thailand, yes it's not perfect by far but it has some good points. You talk as if it's the worst country in the world lol I don't understand this constant flaming of Thailand or anything it does. I think this scanner is a good thing so stop bad mouthing it. It helps keep the doggy people out and that is a good thing. But you people constantly ridicule and make fun of Thailand, sure it's funny to start with but please change the the record everything you say is a so negative. I would judge from some of the ridiculous comments posted, people making the posts don't even live in Thailand, you just use this site to sound off your bigoted ignorant views that are so toxic. YOU ARE NOT FUNNY GET A LIFE

Emotional newbie reaction....give it some time!!

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9 hours ago, webfact said:

using Thailand as an intermediate country to travel to destinations like asylum in the UK and work in South Korea. 

There are two ways to look at this snippet.  First, are they going to the UK to seek asylum and South Korea to look for employment (work) or are they going to a place/town, etc., called Work in South Korea and Asylum in the UK?  I ask because there may have been incorrect use of the keyboard by forgetting to use the upper key for Asylum and Work, and because I am from the UK and know of no such place as Asylum and having lived in South Korea for nearly 4 years, I know there is no such place as Work in that country.

 

Poor reporting as there are a few other problems with the information provided.

 

'nuf sed.

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19 minutes ago, ChrisY1 said:

How would biometric technology capture people that have not been identified biometricaly?...It can't!

It is by the lack of a match, when there should be one.

47 minutes ago, Bruce404 said:

Although using fake passports to travel is technically illegal, some of the examples cited in the above Naew Na story appear to be otherwise honest people desperately seeking escape for themselves and family from horrible conditions, and perhaps worse, in Syria where terrible atrocities are occurring, or in Iran and elsewhere civilians are suffering. 

Your points are true - and they should have identified themselves as seeking asylum upon entry into Thailand.

The story seems to imply some of those caught were actually seeking employment elsewhere.

 

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