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18/01/2010
By Wassayos Ngamkham and Saritdet Marukatat
Bangkok Post
Over three days last week, immigration authorities swept up hundreds of beggars from the streets of Bangkok. Among them were 570 Cambodians, 200 of them children.
Staggered by the sheer scale of the problem, the immigration police realise that they are ill-equipped to deal with it and have now handed over the task to the police force's special unit which deals with human trafficking.
The Cambodians rounded up in the raid were all taken back to their own country through Aranyaprathet, but given the ingenuity of the smuggling gangs behind them, many are certain to make their way back to Thailand.
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