In Trump style, Poland will build a wall to stop migrants

The Polish Parliament passed a law authorizing the construction of a border wall and the rejection of migrants at the border.

The lower house of the Polish Parliament approved on Thursday the bill that seeks to build a wall on the border with Belarus to stop the passage of migrants to the country.

"The actions taken by the Alexander Lukashenko regime demanded a firm response from the Polish government," said Mairusz Kaminski, Polish Minister of the Interior and Administration, adding that barriers of this type have "worked successfully" in other countries.

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Poland, as well as other European Union countries such as Lithuania, Latvia and Germany, have reported a large increase in migrants trying to enter Europe from countries such as Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq via Belarus.

The increase began in August, coinciding with the crisis in Afghanistan due to the withdrawal of US troops from that country and the return of the Taliban to power. In the first nine months of 2021, the Polish Border Guard prevented 9,287 attempts to cross the border, of which 8,000 took place in the last month. To cope with the unusual flow of migrants, Poland began erecting barbed wire along its border.

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"Despite the fact that the Polish-Belarusian section of the state border has established a barbed wire and a concertina-type wire fence, the number of attempts to cross the border is not decreasing, but is growing," read in the bill.

The wall, which would replace the barbed wire, would have security cameras and motion sensors, and would be worth about 1.6 billion zlotys, the equivalent of US $ 404 million.

The influx of migrants has sparked a comparison with the 2015 crisis, when more than 1 million people crossed into Europe via Greece from the Middle East. Most settled in Germany.

But the wall is not the only Polish initiative to stop migrants. An amendment included in the bill gives the authorities the power not to examine asylum applications submitted by foreigners who enter the country illegally, unless they have come from a country where their life and freedom were threatened.

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Non-governmental organizations have criticized Poland for having imposed a state of emergency on the border, preventing associations from helping newcomers and prohibiting access to non-residents, including journalists.

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Seven people have died on the EU-Belarus border since the start of the wave of migration seen in the region this summer, according to Polish, Lithuanian and Belarusian authorities.

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Brussels suspects that the Minsk regime encourages this flow in retaliation for European sanctions imposed by internal political repression. Most of the migrants coming to the European Union cross the Mediterranean, making the journey through these Eastern European countries an unprecedented phenomenon.

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