The Act on providing protection to foreigners in the territory of the Republic of Poland was amended on March 13, and then quickly signed by the president . Gives special prerogatives to the government – and on this basis On Thursday, March 27, the Regulation of the Council of Ministers was published in the Journal of Laws “on the temporary limitation of the right to submit an application for international protection.” To put it short, border guards no longer have to accept asylum applications from applicants for the protection of migrants.
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Meanwhile, the so-called pressure from migrants on the Polish-Belarusian border is currently growing from month to month. From the beginning of the year to March 20 Border She recorded 2.2 thousand cases of illegal crossing of the border. Only in March it was 1.4 thousand attempts.
– The situation on the Polish-Belarusian border is not a situation of poor migrants who are treated badly by the Polish side. This is an organized subversive action on the part of Moscow and Minsk aimed at the security of Poland and Europe and consists in organizing illegal crossing of the border, which is also associated with physical risk on our border. We will, regardless of the comments, progressed in an absolute way and we will protect the border against anyone who wants to cross it illegally – declared the prime minister on Thursday Donald Tusk .
Asylum law. Is the decision of President Andrzej Duda Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska/Fakty TVN
We talk about the lawyer Maciej Grześkowiak, the main coordinator for strategic cooperation in the office of the Ombudsman.
Tomasz Słomczyński: To understand what really happened after the introduction of the government's regulation on Thursday, let's say, as it was before this change.
Maciej Grześkowiak: The legal status was that at the moment when the migrating person, the migrant, reported to the border guard that he would like to submit a asylum application, this caused an automatic obligation on the side of that border guard to accept such an application and give him the right run. This, of course, did not mean that all persons who declare the will to submit an asylum application in Poland, the machine was guaranteed from the machine, but this gave birth to the obligation to consider such an application. Importantly, for the needs of this procedure, such a person has the right to stay in our country.
