Poland prevents 98% of illegal migrants crossing Belarus border, PM Tusk says. Since 2021, thousands of migrants have crossed the Belarusian border into the European Union in what Warsaw has called a “hybrid attack” orchestrated by Alexander Lukashenko at the behest of the Kremlin.

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1. > “We’re dealing with both a state-run operation and a smuggling network,” the prime minister said.

   > While thousands of people have been blocked from entering by security services, a significant number have also managed to evade the security services, cross the border and claim asylum in countries such as Germany aided by smugglers.

   > Last year, there was a 192% increase in attempts to cross the EU’s border from Belarus and Ukraine or approximately 17,000 people, data from the EU’s border guard agency Frontex shows. The majority were from Ukraine, Ethiopia and Somalia. The figures bucked the bloc’s trend, as most other areas saw a fall in attempted crossings.

2. If western Europe didn’t have such lax asylum laws that were so open to abuse this wouldn’t be such an issue.

   As it is these people are being weaponised against the west. They are a financial burden, the scale of migration causes unrest within the populations and leads to destabilisation.

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