"illegal entry"

More Myanmar citizens are trying to illegally cross border to Thailand, and there have also been arrests almost every day this month.

Soldiers tracked 16 Myanmar nationals who had entered the country illegally to a rented house in Ranong on Friday. Also detained were three Thais who are believed to have helped them.

Two Nigerians were arrested by Sa Kaeo soldiers for illegally crossing the border in Ta Phraya district on Wednesday.

Immigration Bureau police have nabbed 2,978 migrants from neighbouring countries who entered Thailand illegally from March to May this year, Immigration Police deputy chief Pol Maj-General Achayon Kraithong said on Wednesday.

Immigration Police chief Pol Lt-General Sompong Chingduang, together with high-level police officers, travelled to inspect the northern border checkpoint to plan preventive measures against the spread of Covid-19 from Myanmar, which is currently beset with pandemic and political problems.

Provincial Police Region 5 chief Pol Lt-General Prachuap Wongsuk instructed Chiang Rai Immigration Police chief Nattawut Saengduen on Wednesday to charge three people who illegally entered Thailand with Covid-19. The three have since recovered but are required to continue to observe their symptoms at home for another 14 days.

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told the press on Tuesday that the Covid-19 situation in Thailand has not reached the epidemic level yet.

Paramilitary rangers rounded up 16 Cambodian workers while they were being led by two Cambodian agents in an attempt to cross the natural borderline into Cambodia from behind the Rong Klua Market and the Ban Khlong Leuk Train Station in Sa Kaew’s Aranyaprathet district on Monday.

Washington - The United States will no longer allow people who enter the country illegally to claim asylum, officials said Thursday, unveiling a controversial new crackdown on immigration.

Five North Korean women and three children ages 3-6 found wandering on a road in northeastern Bueng Kan province on Monday have been charged with entering Thailand illegally.