Poland Is Strengthening Its Border With Belarus to Deter Illegal Migration

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    FILE - Members of a group of some 30 migrants seeking asylum are seen in Bialowieza, Poland, on Sunday, 28 May 2023. Poland’s defense minister said Thursday that the metal barrier against illegal migration on border with Bealrus is being strengthened and plans are being made to reinforce the security of border with Russia. (AP Photo/Agnieszka Sadowska, File)

    WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s defense minister said Thursday his country is strengthening the metal barrier along its border with Belarus to deter illegal migration.

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    “We are mending the barrier on the Polish-Belarusian border, we are strengthening this barrier,” Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on private Radio Zet. “The spending on these purposes is the highest in (Poland’s) history.”

    Kosiniak-Kamysz said the increased presence of Polish and allied military forces in regions close to the border is also helping to tighten the eastern frontier of NATO and the European Union. That presence has been increased since Russia’s aggression in Ukraine in 2022.

    He spoke in favor of Poland building a line of defensive bunkers, trenches and ditches along that border and the one with Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad, steps that the Baltic states have already taken.

    Poland says a massive wave of illegal migration from Belarus, especially in 2022, was orchestrated by that country and by Russia to destabilize Poland, a Ukrainian ally, and the European Union. The influx was largely curbed by the metal barrier that Poland completed last year, but some illegal crossings continue.

    The minister’s comments also suggested that the barrier is seen as a wider defense measure during Russia’s war with Ukraine, which borders Poland.


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    XYZ
    XYZ
    10 days ago

    We can Malign the poles with all the “Polock” jokes we want, however they will have the last laugh

    cornpop
    cornpop
    10 days ago

    Amazing. The Poles can figure it out, but our globalist stooges can’t. Good for them.

    Biden and the Dems give aid and comfort to Hamas.
    Biden and the Dems give aid and comfort to Hamas.
    10 days ago

    I was told walls don’t work and are xenophobic.

    Magda
    Magda
    10 days ago

    Learning from Hungary . Hungary doesn’t give a darn what EU anti Semites says.

    Alta Bubby
    Alta Bubby
    10 days ago

    Don’t they want cheap labour?
    How very open of them!
    Are they being genocidal by not allowing them into their Country for refuge?
    Interesting
    It doesn’t bother anyone in the World what Poland does
    But Israel,
    A tiny tiny dot on the map, biden and 6he UK, can’t stop yelping