Posted on 08/27/2021 4:20:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Poland has become the latest European country to start building an anti-refugee wall, with a new fence on its border with Belarus.
The 2.5-meter-high wall would be modeled on one built by Hungary on its border with Serbia in 2015, Polish defense minister Mariusz Blaszczak said.
“We are dealing with an attack on Poland. It is an attempt to trigger a migration crisis,” he told press at a briefing near the Belarus frontier on Monday (23 August). “It is [also] necessary to increase the number of soldiers [on the border] … We will soon double the number of soldiers to 2,000,” he added. “We will not allow the creation of a route for the transfer of migrants via Poland to the European Union.”
The minister shared photos of a 100-km razor-wire barrier, which Poland already erected in recent weeks.
Some 2,100 people from the Middle East and Africa tried to enter Poland via Belarus in the past few months in what Blaszczak called “a dirty game of [Belarus president Alexander] Lukashenko and the Kremlin” to hit back at EU sanctions.
“These are not refugees; they are economic migrants brought in by the Belarusian government,” deputy foreign minister Marcin Przydacz also said on Monday. …
(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...
Doskanałe!
Soldiers on the border?
Why didn’t we think to do that?
Smart
“Anti-Refugee Wall”
Nice, unbiased headline
Poland and Hungary are the only countries trying to protect their nationality.
THESE ARE NOT REFUGEES!!!
Kinda like alot of those Afghan refugees headed to your hometown.
No joking here.
These guys get it.
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