Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok. What it was like for one Kiwi.

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Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok. What it was like for one Kiwi.

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The 28-year-old travelled to Thailand illegally for a new life, it took one week for him to be picked up by officials. Photo credit: Supplied.

13/04/2019
Fiona Connor

"We thought we were just getting deported and then next thing you know, we're getting locked up in a cell with 120 other people that have been in there for two weeks, three weeks, a month, a couple years and longer.

"Tana lay down and drew a harrowing comparison to the tropical paradise he had been exploring just days earlier as a newly-hired barman with free accommodation and alcohol, now issued a blanket to sleep on the cold squalor floor."

"Westerners mostly made up the room he was in with a scattering of Australians amid Europeans and Englishmen.They were locked up for selling or smuggling drugs, overstaying, working without a visa, and one guy, for murder."

"His time in the courtyard would be a crucial chance at letting an official know he was there."You have to get your ID card to the officers, they write your number down, you tell them you're from NZ or whatever and then they contact your embassy."He says your embassy has to come and see you, and then they request for you to come down to be interviewed."

""It's very unhygienic and cramped, the detention cells are run by a 'trustee' system of detainees beating and abusing other detainees at the behest of guards, the food is minimal and far from nutritious, and children are still detained in the same cells as adults."

""Since Thailand refuses to pay for the deportation of people (other than those from neighboring countries of Laos, Cambodia and Burma), some people are stuck there for years while they try to find someone to pay for their plane ticket home," said Robertson."

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Yeah... an illegal job in a foreign country... with free booze and being paid to party!!! What could possibly go wrong?
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Try it in America and see if the conditions are any more accommodating.
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I spend a few weeks in there. Never saw any 'beatings' or 'abuse' and no children were banged up with the adults. They did separate the africans - and put them in their own cell complete with no lights. The food was revolting and, yeah, it wasn't very nice.
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