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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing what is being called the Phuket "Red Card" System. For those who are unaware and I have made a number of videos on this topic, apparently as of the time of this video Phuket Immigration has imposed a Red Card, Yellow Card System wherein foreign nationals who are in violation of Thai Law, on the initial violation will receive a Yellow Card, they will be allowed to stay in Thailand for the remainder of their stay, but upon leaving they won't be allowed to re-enter for their next entry, so they will be denied their next entry. Then the Red Card, if they commit two violations while still in Thailand, will be immediately deported and removed from the country and presumably, I don't know if they will be blacklisted forever or if at all, it remains to be seen. This is all pretty new. We're still kind of feeling this thing out. 

Also bear in mind, this is not Thailand wide. This seems to be specifically in Phuket at least for now. Now bear in mind, Phuket has had kind of a different Immigration System for the past couple of years, again it is not that different, it is still under Thai Immigration, it is not autonomous or anything like that, it is just different. It is a tourism sector that is a little bit different than the rest of the Kingdom as a whole. The other thing to bear in mind in recent history is they had the "Phuket Sandbox" which was a totally different program compared to the rest of Thailand and for that reason they kind of have this different way of doing things for lack of a better term and this "Red Card", "Yellow Card" system is another example of that. 

The purpose of this video is to compare though to the notion of US inadmissibility because a lot of people have asked me they have said "oh this system really isn't great" and people don't like it, clearly and I can understand why. But understand compared to for example the US System with regard to deportable offenses and being deported, I mean yeah in the sense that this Thai Red Card system seems to somewhat have a traffic violation component, there is nothing really in the Immigration Act in the United States specifically that deals with traffic violations although I can see a confluence of events involving a traffic situation which could end up with a legal ground of inadmissibility. But the thing to understand and the thing to take away from this video is, look all Immigration Systems have these enforcement functions. There are activities that they deem are not for the public benefit of the country at hand that they basically say "look we are going to deport you over that, or we are going to take measures to see that you don't come back,” for example. It is not just Thailand. I can see where sometimes Thailand does things that are a little bit different from the rest of the world or they are implemented in a way that is very different from the way they would be implemented somewhere else, but look Immigration Systems throughout the world have some pretty stringent rules and regulations regarding who is allowed to be in their country and what activity can result in somebody being deported. So when I view this, I don't really see it as being completely out of whack with Immigration Authorities and apparatuses throughout the world. If anything, I view it as kind of to one degree or another, in line with at least the underlying law involving Immigration Systems throughout the world.