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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing, well we are discussing "Foreigners Behaving Badly" yet again; that's another one of these videos. In this situation, the title of this video is probably not very useful, but that said, let me get into why it is called that. So I got this information from the Twitter account of The Pattaya News, that The Pattaya News, so it's @The_PattayaNews on X, quoting directly: "Over 20 women suspected of being engaged in prostitution, almost all foreign women from Africa, were arrested on Pattaya beach this morning in an operation called "Before Valentine, Coconut Office" designed at making Pattaya safer as a tourist destination, said Police." I urge those who are watching this video go check that out; go check out The Pattaya News' website and you can see more details on the bust. 

I think this is important to point out that look, Immigration Police, Thai Police generally speaking, have been stepping up efforts in terms of proactive law enforcement especially against what are perceived to be blatantly, flagrantly, foreign criminals and by that I mean okay, not flagrantly foreign, but just there seem to be a lot of folks coming into Thailand to do illicit stuff. And I've done another video made contemporaneously with this one where we talked about one of the biggest drug busts down on one of the islands. Now we are seeing this, and this is becoming more common. Folks, this leads to kind of a feedback loop. If this type of thing keeps happening, and it is deemed that there is a need to round up a bunch of folks, Thai Immigration and the Thai Police are not going to have any problem doing that. So what I think we will probably see especially as we see high season sort of ebb out, although I think high season itself, the dynamic of that is going to change for variety of reasons. One, as we talked about going back a couple years, Cannabis itself changed the dynamic of when people come in, and how long they stay. Some people down in especially like Phuket, we're talking about it as the "green season" because again May, June, July, which usually are like the doldrums, we are now seeing a lot more folks hang around. 

Meanwhile, there are also new Visa options, most notably things like the DTV Visa which again, it's not widely accessible to absolutely everyone, but it's more available, and is providing more availability for folks to be able to stay here longer. So the dynamic of high season itself and low season and everything I think is sort of shifting, but we do always see this stuff, it tends to be right around here February late January even sometimes March, where it's kind of like the "Foreigners Behaving Badly-ness" if you will sort of spikes at that point and law enforcement, Immigration, they take steps to curb things. You'll see a lot of pretty large crackdowns which we have seen, for example in this situation involving again a number of foreign prostitutes, and a mass arrest of those folks and presumably mass deportation if that is warranted. Again this is just kind of the cycle if you will that we are kind of used to dealing with here insofar as coming to the end of high season where you just sort of see it come to a head; it's like it accumulates if you will and folks just get kind of complacent. They think they can get away with whatever here in Thailand, and then boom, they're in jail; that seems to be the way that it plays. I'm not exactly laughing. People being placed in difficult positions where they just have to do what they have to do, it's not a funny thing, but it is what it is, and it's something that law enforcement definitely has to deal with this as they don't really want to be importing a bunch of foreign lawbreakers. 

So again, I don't see that we will see this let up. If anything, I expect probably crackdowns will probably become more stringent, more acute, at least for the forthcoming 6 to 8 weeks as we see the tail end of high season here in Thailand. That being said, we will certainly be keeping people updated on this channel as the situation evolves.