News Forum - Songkhla officials investigate migrant smuggling network

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Officials and police in South Thailand’s Songkhla province are investigating an illegal migrant smuggling network. On Monday, officials and immigration police set up an ambush in a forest in Hat Yai district. Illegal Burmese migrants had been staying there. After the authorities waited through the night and into the next day, 2 pickup trucks showed up, and the migrants left their hiding places to get on. The officials then arrested 41 migrants, while 3 others escaped into the forest. They also arrested the 2 Thai truck drivers. The drivers said they were being paid 7,000 baht each by a man […]

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13 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

are investigating an illegal migrant smuggling network

So, is that cutting into the profits of the legal migrant smuggling network? How dare ....