Over 7,000 workers from scam centers in Myanmar are awaiting repatriation after a regional crackdown

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MAE SOT, Thailand -- A new crackdown on online scam centers has led to over 7,000 people from around the world being held in a Myanmar border town awaiting repatriation, and those helping them say the unprecedented number is straining the resources of Thailand just across the border and leading to delays.

“The ability to get them over to Thailand and process them and house them and feed them would be impossible for most governments,” she said. “It does require the embassies and the home governments of these citizens to take responsibility for their citizens. It really does require a kind of a global response.

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