According to EU Helpers, the Polish PM has received calls to stop the "gross violations of migrants' rights" along the Poland-Belarus border.
According to Maciej Duszczyk, Poland's Deputy Minister of the Interior and Administration, pushbacks will persist in order to "secure the border," but they will also prioritize humanitarian concerns.
But according to a Polish Border Guard report that was published in the Gazeta Wyborcza, over 60% of unauthorized entries into this nation were not stopped by the border wall separating Belarus and Poland.
The same reported that over 30,000 persons crossed the border into Poland through Belarus in the first nine months of last year, with at least 13,000 of them using Poland as a transit nation to reach Germany despite the border wall.
The study also shows that 17,488 persons who were trying to enter Poland illegally from Belarus were caught in Poland between January and September of last year.
Poland invested around €400 million to build a physical barrier along 186 of the roughly 400 kilometers of border it shares with Belarus in order to address the growing number of refugees.
Furthermore, Poland's Prime Minister Tusk declared earlier this month that his country will not take any relocated asylum seekers under the terms of the EU's recently established migration agreement.
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, suggested a new EU Pact in September 2020 with the goal of better managing the migrant crisis. The agreement would provide clear guidelines ensuring that all EU Member States have equal responsibility for migration.
But earlier this month, Tusk declared that Poland "will never be part of such a mechanism" and that his nation "will not accept a single migrant."
However, more talks will be held on the subject before the European Council must provide final permission.