Hundreds are being sent back every month, but the figures are lower than in the recent past.
Hundreds are being sent back every month, but the figures are lower than in the recent past.
The group was identified after two victims escaped and were found running naked through a Polish city.
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His comments have also been condemned by the Auschwitz Museum and President Andrzej Duda’s chief of staff.
Szymon Hołownia invited homeless people, migrants and others in need to parliament for a Christmas event.
“We want parliamentary to be an open place for citizens and for people to feel that it is their place.”
“The aim of the mission is to transfer the experience that Poland has gained” from its own similar crisis on the Belarus border.
Germany needs to “combat [people] smuggling more aggressively”, says its interior minister.
The government has not commented on claims it was possible to obtain Polish visas by paying up to $5,000 to skip the queue.
The ruling PiS party has now unveiled all four of its proposed referendum questions.
Aleks Szczerbiak
Migration may play a decisive role, although the main beneficiary could be the radical right.
There have been 19,000 attempted crossings from Belarus to Poland already this year, more than the 16,000 recorded in the whole of 2022.
The Polish government’s claims are “not true”, says Ylva Johansson.
Opposition parties accused PiS of exploiting the issue to cover up its failings and boost its ratings ahead of this year’s elections.
Hungary and Poland were the only member states to vote against the EU’s new migration and asylum agreement.