Can't be too safe you know. Those Deplorables could be lurking out there.
Posted on 01/27/2022 11:35:57 AM PST by Right Wing Vegan
oland has begun construction on a $394 million wall in an effort to prevent migrants from entering the European Union via the country's order with Belarus.
The wall, which is scheduled to be completed in June, is to be 18 feet high and run 115 miles along the part of the border on land. Other parts of the border are marked by the Bug River, according to The Associated Press.
Since thousands of migrants from the Middle East and Africa attempted to enter the European Union through the border with Belarus this summer, the country has attempted to protect its border with razor wire and guards, the AP added.
However, critics have voiced opposition to the plan and say that Poland’s wall will not stop the migrants.
“The wall stops only the disabled, the weak, the sick. It doesn’t stop desperate people who are fleeing danger from trying to cross,” Natalia Gebert of the Grupa Granica (The Border Group), which aids migrants in Poland, told the AP.
In November, migrant encampments along the border in Belarus were cleared after people, most of whom were headed to Germany, endured freezing temperatures and brutal conditions. At that time, the migrants were provided shelter in a government-run warehouse.
But throughout the crisis, at least 12 migrants died near the border, the AP reported.
“We were living worse than dogs,” 35-year-old Masoud Mahdi, who, along with his pregnant wife and young daughter, spent 11 days at the camp, said at the time.
The West had accused Belarus' authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko of using the migrants as a political pawn against the EU following sanctions imposed following the disputed 2020 election. Belarus, however, denies those accusations.
Wait! Ask any Democrat politician in the US, walls don’t work!
At least the wall is moving the right way from the border of west Germany to eastern Poland.
What audacity to protect your country! Very selfish.
Browns fan? Also a fan of Cleveland’s Mike Trivisonno? I’m sad to learn he passed away last year. Used to catch his broadcasts on certain nights the signal traveled through NY, or on the internet. I remember him telling callers they were “in” the air rather than “on” it. He was entertaining and often informative to listen to. RIP
Can they build one for us in TX/NM/AZ/CA?
Damn, everyone is building protective walls except us. Our idiots in Sodom on the Potomac are tearing them down.
That’s racist.
Oh, wait, nevermind.
5.56mm
As long as we are talking about walls, why not walls for both our Canadian borders? The one with the continental 48 states and the one with Alaska.
“Also a fan of Cleveland’s Mike Trivisonno?”
I’m old, almost ancient. I was a die hard Browns fan before the NFL taught me that teams belong to owners, not the city. I still follow the Browns, but don’t plan my day around them like I once did.
I remember Trivisonno when he used to call Pete Franklin and went by Mr. Know-it-all. When Triv finally got a show, he was good. Time and the decline of sports wore on him, as it has me, and we both got more than a little cynical. Eventually, Triv ended up on drive time, and would discuss the topic of the day with a dash of sports thrown in. Triv was a conservative. He grew up in Cleveland, and I suspect he was a reformed Democrat. He didn’t hold back, and was known to throw people off his program.
I liked him. I miss him as much as you can miss someone you don’t know. Time marches on.
They’re Polaks. They can put Fort Trump there and call it the Mexican wall.
A self-help guru used the gag in the 1990s “America is still the greatest free country in the world to start with nothing and build a successful life. Nobody tries to sneak into Poland.”
Now they need a wall there, too.
Can't be too safe you know. Those Deplorables could be lurking out there.
Hey, they get a wall. It’s only fair we get a wall, too.
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