TAK: Forty Cambodian and 20 Chinese nationals were arrested for immigration offences during raids in Mae Sot district on Wednesday morning.
Teams comprising immigration officers, tourist police, local police and officials searched 6-7 locations in the border district.
Ten of the 60 arrested had overstayed their visas for many years, Pol Col Man Rattanaprathip, chief of Mae Sot immigration checkpoint, said.
Officers also seized a large amount of unlicensed internet communications equipment from one location, where 10 people, Thais and Myanmar nationals, were detained.
The raids were ordered by Pol Maj Gen Surachate Hakparn, acting commissioner of the Immigration Bureau.
