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New regulations will seal Polish border - interior minister

Planned changes to immigration regulations aim to seal the Polish border and make it easier to expel illegal immigrants, Interior Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Monday.

30.01.2017 12:14 update: 27.09.2018 00:16
Warszawa, 30.01.2017. Minister spraw wewnętrznych i administracji Mariusz Błaszczak podczas konferencji prasowej nt. projektu zmian w ustawie o udzielaniu cudzoziemcom ochrony na terytorium RP, 30 bm. w MSWiA w Warszawie. (zuz) Fot. PAP/Rafał Guz
Fot. PAP/Rafał Guz / Warszawa, 30.01.2017. Minister spraw wewnętrznych i administracji Mariusz Błaszczak podczas konferencji prasowej nt. projektu zmian w ustawie o udzielaniu cudzoziemcom ochrony na terytorium RP, 30 bm. w MSWiA w Warszawie. (zuz) Fot. PAP/Rafał Guz

"Our main concern is security, followed by sealing the borders, and thirdly the introduction of procedures facilitating the expulsion of people entering or trying to enter Poland illegally, or with the intention of treating it as a transit country because their actual destination is Western Europe", Blaszczak said outlining draft amendments to Poland's law on foreigners.

The new regulations will help Poland avoid migration pressure, in the minister's view. "If migrants ... know they cannot get across the Polish border, they will not try it", he said. (PAP)


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