Poland is moving closer to a complete asylum ban at the border with a Russian ally. The UN refugee watchdog earlier warned that the EU-backed policy on the Belarusian border would violate international law
Poland is on the verge of approving a bill that would entail refusing to accept most asylum claims from migrants arriving from neighboring Belarus.
The policy, which has yet to be formally approved by President Andrzej Duda but has the EU’s blessing, has been criticized as violating international law.
COMMENT: If THE BANNING OF illegal immigration from Belarus has the blessing of the EU why can’t this blessing be extended to France, Italy, Spain and other EU countries from which Third World illegal migrants are entering Europe? ~ Michael Walsh, Investigative Journalism.
In February, the Polish parliament approved a bill allowing the right to apply for asylum at the Belarus border to be suspended.
=The move is aimed at countering what Polish officials have described as hybrid warfare tactics by Belarus and Russia. Both Moscow and Minsk have denied orchestrating an influx of migrants into the EU.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk noted that the bill still needed Duda’s signature. ’It is not my job to rush the president.
Of course, I know the constitutional powers. I know that he still has time. But we, Poles, do not have time, because every day we record 100, 150, 200 attempts to cross the border illegally,’ he said.
According to RMF FM, Duda was very irritated by Tusk nudging him publicly. The outlet added, however, that the president ’often emphasizes that he is in favor of strengthening our eastern border, so there will be a signature.’
Back in 2024, the EU backed Tusk’s plan to suspend asylum claims, with the European Council stating at the time that ’Russia and Belarus… cannot be allowed to abuse our values, including the right to asylum, and to undermine our democracies’ and voicing support for the push to secure the bloc’s external borders.
However, in February, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees warned that the proposed legislation would violate international and European law, recalling that countries cannot return asylum seekers to a place where they would be at risk of persecution or serious harm.
Human Rights Watch also criticized the bill, arguing that it would ’formalize ongoing unlawful and abusive pushbacks at Poland’s border with Belarus.’
The crisis began in 2021, when thousands of migrants, mainly from the Middle East and Africa, began crossing into Poland from Belarus amid tensions between Minsk and the West.
The EU imposed sanctions on Belarus over allegations of fraud in the 2020 presidential election, a claim Minsk has vehemently denied.
In January, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signalled that he had no intention of shielding Poland from a migrant influx.
‘We do not fight against migration and people who want to live there in the EU. They slapped my people with sanctions, and I have to protect them? No way,’ he said at the time. TELL US WHAT YOU THINK
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Of course we can also ban migrants from our borders! Poland hasn’t *POOF* disappeared, has it? NO!Folks are captured by the Milgram experiment writ large. Some inbred oligarch tells you something and the sheeple say “Baaaaaah!”We The People can do whatever the F*** WE WANT! Politicians and ‘leaders’ work FOR US, we do not answer to them.
What is wrong with people in this world they they say they are free but then bow down to whatever person claims to have the right to lead you? You’re being led around and ruled by the biggest scumbags the earth has ever seen (so far). Wake up people!!!!
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