The Polish Prime Minister has promised to reduce illegal migration to a minimum.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk intends to suspend the provision of asylum to illegal migrants who are trying to enter the country from Belarus.
This was written by BILD.
“One of the elements of the migration strategy will be the temporary territorial suspension of the right to asylum. I will demand recognition of this decision in Europe,” he said at the party conference of the Civic Coalition.
According to Tusk, the authorities of Belarus and Russia, as well as smugglers, are using the right of migrants to asylum for their own purposes, which contradicts its very essence. He stressed that the state must regain full control over who enters Poland and the European Union.
The Polish prime minister promised to “reduce illegal migration to a minimum.” A new plan for strict migration measures will be presented to the cabinet on Tuesday, October 15. Tusk also warned that Poland would not comply with the EU migration agreement if its requirements threatened Poland's security.
As Reuters notes, migration has become one of the main topics on the agenda in Poland since 2021, when a large number of illegal immigrants, mainly from the Middle East and Africa, began to try to enter the country en masse through the border with Belarus. Warsaw and the European Union have said that this migration crisis is orchestrated by Minsk and Moscow. Russia and Belarus deny their involvement.
Since taking office in December 2023, Tusk has been pursuing a tough policy on migration. The strategy has received broad public support, but has disappointed activists who had hoped that Tusk would abandon the previous government's migration policies.
Marysia Zlonkiewicz of Grupa Granica, an NGO that helps migrants at the border, said denying asylum was unconstitutional and would push migrants into the hands of smugglers.
“Prime Minister Tusk is violating the constitution that he promised to protect… You can't selectively deprive people of their constitutional rights,” she said.
Thousands of migrants set out on foot from southern Mexico to the United States. Local media reported that most of the migrants were from Cuba, Haiti and Honduras, but some came from as far away as Bangladesh and India.
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