DControversy about immigration from Belarus illegally I If you want to enter, you still have international institutions present. The focus of the activity is currently the village of Usnarz Górny in Poland; a group of about 30 people, apparently from Afghanistan or Iraq, are waiting at the previously barely fortified border in the wooded area. At this point you have to cross the external borders of the EU and apply for asylum. However, the Polish border guards have blocked the border, preventing anyone from passing through. To the east of the open-air temporary camp are people in uniform from Belarus, so the migrants can neither go back nor go forward, and all supplies are obviously cut off.
Since June, about 4,100 migrants have crossed the green border into Lithuania. According to Lithuanian border guards, they come from about forty Asian and African countries; about half are Iraqis. Since the spring, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has repeatedly threatened that “immigrants and drugs” will pave the way for joining the European Union, and even “will not prevent” armed Muslims. Lithuania took drastic measures: implemented a state of emergency, shortened asylum procedures, and started installing barbed wire along the border.The EU border guards also come from front in use.
Since then, more immigrants have been turned away.NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg The Warsaw newspaper Rzeczpospolita told the Warsaw newspaper Rzeczpospolita on Thursday that the coalition would send a team of experts to the eastern border of Lithuania due to the “use of immigration as a tool for mixed attacks”. The fact that Russia and Belarus will begin the main Sapad-2021 exercise in the region on September 10 adds to concerns.
Polish question
At the same time, the incident has spread to the borders with Poland and Latvia. According to border guards, between August 1 and 25, 2,900 attempts to cross the border were detected in Poland; therefore, 2,000 of them could be “prevented” and 900 were detained in border protection facilities. In Poland, dealing with immigrants has become the most controversial topic: first, militants, then left-wing and liberal parliamentarians and two priests tried to pass the food and sleeping bags of camping immigrants to them through the grid of the Polish border guards. They can get in touch with them. lawyer. Warsaw eventually provided humanitarian assistance, but emphasized that the immigrants are located east of the border, so the Belarusian authorities will have to continue to provide assistance. At the same time, Warsaw has begun to erect a two-and-a-half-meter-high metal fence on the 418-kilometer-long border with Belarus.
On Wednesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected an immigrant’s urgent request to enter Poland with an injunction. He only ordered two EU countries to provide them with food, medical assistance, and “provide temporary shelter if possible.” The court clearly emphasized that Poland and Latvia have the right to “control the entry, residence and deportation of foreigners.” UNHCR had previously asked Poland to allow immigrants to enter.
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The European Commission is looking for a solution in the background and is contacting UNHCR. So far, she has not criticized either of the two member states. A Belarusian spokesperson said: “We firmly reject attempts to use the people for political purposes.” He said that the borders of the Schengen area should be protected. This is clearly stipulated in the Boundary Law; entry and asylum applications must usually be submitted at official border crossing points. D.
But the spokesperson also reviewed the right of immigrants to “effectively obtain asylum procedures.” In this case, the question is whether Belarus will not be held accountable in the first place, as this usually allows immigrants to enter the country on tourist visas and then smuggle them to the border crossing.
