Immigration police are looking into a possible human-trafficking scheme in which Cambodian muslims legally enter Thailand through Sa Kaeo as tourists for 14 days but work as rubber tappers in Narathiwat for up to six months.

When they want to go home, they let themselves be arrested for illegal entry by abandoning their travel documents. Then they are repatriated and later re-enter Thailand using the same names in new passports.

Read more: The Nation