
Download Thailand is stepping up efforts to detain and deport illegal migrant workers, mainly from Burma.
Under new regulations that came into force in February is year all migrant workers had to have a passport and then register with the government to gain a work permit.
Almost 900,000 have complied or started the process, but 300,000 failed to renew work permits and submit national verification requests for passports while another one million remain outside the process altogether.
As Ron Corben in Bangkok reports the policy has created fear amongst migrant workers.









