Overstayers are unwelcome

From my experience, the Thai Police could be more efficient and productive by following up on their meagre successes [in fiding people overstaying their visas].
Lower Sukhumvit Road, especially the odd number sois between 1 and Asoke are crawling with foreigners that can be observed to be dealing drugs and human trafficking, and con men ready to take any victims’ money.
The police should do more video surveillance, immigration checks on the loiterers and everyone detained automatically should have their residence searched for evidence of criminal activity.
Stop the raids for the press that are embarrassing the police in general, and do the work. In no reality in this universe are these raids a deterrent to the criminals involved.
Grantbkk

I feel safer already. 
Bluespunk
 
This is not xenophobia, this is a case of the police arresting and deporting criminals.
Simoh1490
While I agree there is a lot of xenophobia here, I cannot see it in these cases. All I see are Tourist Police doing at least part of the job they are employed to do.
To be honest, I wish England would do more in this area, maybe get rid of a large amount of freeloading foreigners back to where they came from.
AhFarangJa

I thought you could get 37 in the main street of Pattaya, and this number throughout Thailand.
Tracker1

 A lot of these people have families that they support here. Many of them support Thai families and children that are not their own. 
What’s the harm in doing a bit of English teaching to help Thais? 
Greenchair

So, what you are saying is that a person who creates a family with children, or chooses to live with one do not have to think about the position he put himself in? Can he afford this without breaking the law in the country where he wants to stay?
 Where I come from, you plan your life before you enter something that you can’t handle. Maybe you come from another side of the world. 
Get Real

I don’t like comparisons to the West, as often not very relevant to living here. 
On the other hand, my home country has an estimated 2 million illegal immigrants. With no paperwork or legal status I have no idea how these people survive. 
So, good on Thailand for rounding up some of the illegal immigrants (I can’t imagine many are asylum seekers ) .
Peterb17
Thaivisa.com