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As the title of this video suggests, we are asking the question "bodycams and drones are going to start being used by Thai Immigration?" Wow, we are definitely in a brave new world here, I can remember wow, just wow!

I thought of making this video after reading a recent article in the Bangkok post, that is bangkokpost.com, the article is titled: 200 more Immigration Officers to help over Chinese New Year. Again the thrust of this video goes to a different direction than the thrust of this article. I urge those who are watching this video, check it out but I am going to quote a small excerpt here. Quoting directly: "The Thai Immigration Bureau will recruit 200 more Officers this month to ease the workload and speed up the Immigration process, especially at arrival halls at International airport." Quoting further: "Volunteers will also help Immigration Police, and checkpoints will be increased, he said. Technology including bodycams and drones will be used to improve safety." I am always a little bit, my hackles go up a little bit when I hear "improved safety". We heard a lot of "health and safety" during the Covid nonsense but yeah "bodycams and drones!" I am curious to see what kind of drones will be talking about in an Immigration context because I am not quite sure what kind of function a drone would undertake in Immigration.

Meanwhile are we truly on the path to having some kind of roboticized Immigration checkpoint apparatus in the future and I am talking about this internationally, I am not picking on Thailand with regard to this because if Thailand is doing it, you know there are other jurisdictions out there that are probably way even further ahead on this. Thailand probably begrudgingly went along with this probably out of some feeling that they may be needed to adhere to some kind of international protocol or something, who knows.

But long story short, yeah I mean I just don't really want to go into a world where sort of drones and bodycams and all of this stuff is used in an Immigration context. I can understand the argument for bodycams, that makes some sense and there may be some public benefits to that by having public officers in this case Immigration officers have some kind of bodycam to sort of keep an ongoing record but the usage of drones in an Immigration context, I really fail to see the exigent need for those types of resources. That said, who am I to ask and will certainly keep you updated on this channel as this rather for lack of a better word, dystopian situation evolves.