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Polish border guards open fire as a group of illegal migrants try to sneak through the border wall with Belarus.

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What’s more, Muslim ‘legal’ immigration is not a problem either as Poland has refused to accept a single Muslim migrant/asylum seeker under the European Union resettlement mandate.

Notes from Poland The EU’s migration pact has become a highly charged political issue in Poland. The former conservative Law and Justice (PiS) government was strongly opposed to the plan, which includes a proposed mechanism for member states to either receive relocated asylum seekers from frontline countries or instead make “solidarity payments”.

Poland has argued that it is already hosting almost 1 million Ukrainian refugees, the second largest number in Europe after Germany.

Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, has declared that his government would refuse to accept any relocated asylum seekers under the EU’s proposed new migration pact. He added that he is opposed in general to the introduction of such a system.

“The position of the Polish government [is that] we will not accept any forced mechanism [to relocate asylum seekers] and I want to assure you that Poland will not accept illegal migrants under any such mechanism,” said Tusk on Wednesday.

“We will not accept a single migrant,” he added. “Poland will never be part of such a mechanism.”

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Tusk himself served as president of the European Council from 2014 to 2019, during which time the EU launched a previous system designed to redistribute asylum seekers from frontline countries to other member states.

That system, however, was abandoned in 2017, in part because Poland – then under PiS rule – and Hungary refused to take any of their quota of asylum seekers. Both countries, as well as the Czech Republic, were later found by the European Court of Justice to have violated EU lawby failing to comply with the system.

Tusk claimed that “when it comes to forced relocation, for years when I was the head of the European Council I was definitely against the so-called ‘forced solidarity’”. “It was, among other reasons, because I was head of the European Council that this mechanism was never implemented,” he added.

In fact, the system was implemented and almost 27,695 were relocated under it before it was abandoned in late 2017. The previous year, Tusk told the European Parliament that “relocation is and will be one of the key elements of the European solution to the crisis” and called on member states to show “solidarity”.

However, at the same time he said that “we would make a mistake if [relocation] became the main tool of our policy, because it would be a simple incentive for further, even greater migration flows”. In 2017, he then admitted that relocation systems “have no future” and called for them to be abandoned.