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Thailand to crackdown on foreign workers

Thailand's government is launching a crackdown on foreign labourers without papers.

The authorities have been unable to stop a human tide of illegal immigrants seeking work. In the first half of 2001, police said they arrested and deported about 120,000 illegal workers.

Police, soldiers, and labour ministry officers will be deployed across the country from February the tenth onwards to arrest illegal migrant workers nationwide.

Over the past decade, millions of people from Indochina have fled war and poverty and found work in Thailand as housemaids, fishermen, construction workers and farm labourers.

07/02/2002 06:04:15 | ABC Radio Australia News

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