{"id":703,"date":"2025-07-03T21:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/?p=703"},"modified":"2025-07-03T21:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:30:24","slug":"poland-knows-how-to-stop-illegal-border-crossings-and-now-adding-a-mine-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/poland-knows-how-to-stop-illegal-border-crossings-and-now-adding-a-mine-field\/","title":{"rendered":"POLAND KNOWS HOW TO STOP ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSINGS..AND NOW ADDING A MINE FIELD!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poland Stops 98% of Illegal Migrant Crossings with a 116-Mile, 16ft-High Border Wall \u2013 and Now it\u2019s Adding a Minefield<\/h1>\n
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Poland cut illegal immigration from Belarus by 98% after building a 116-mile border wall \u2013 and now Donald Tusk\u2019s Government is adding a minefield. Turns out robust clampdown on illegal entry is okay if it\u2019s from Russia. The Mail <\/em>has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Poland\u2019s Foreign Minister\u00a0Radoslaw Sikorski has claimed a \u00a3300 million border wall has proven \u201c98% effective\u201d at preventing attempts of illegal migration from Belarus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had large numbers of people who were invited by\u00a0Russia\u00a0and Belarus from the Middle East and Africa who were then pushed across the Polish-Belarusian border into Poland,\u201d Sikorski told BBCR4\u2019s\u00a0Today\u00a0<\/a>programme.<\/p>\n

Warsaw alleges that Minsk and\u00a0Moscow\u00a0have long been waging a \u201chybrid war\u201d, seeking to flood Poland with refugees to strain the country\u2019s finances and law enforcement resources, and destabilise civil society.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year we have completed a big and beautiful fence with sensors overground, underground, with a patrol road alongside it, so hardly anybody gets through that barrier,\u201d Sikorski declared.<\/p>\n

He also mentioned a recent amendment to immigration legislation that stipulates migrants attempting to reach Poland via Russia and Belarus can continue to apply for asylum in Poland, but only at consulate buildings in Moscow and Minsk.<\/p>\n

The anti-migration fencing was completed in June 2022 and now spans a 116-mile-long stretch of the Polish-Belarusian border, but was subsequently upgraded with surveillance equipment, including CCTV cameras, heat and motion sensors.<\/p>\n

The five-metre-high metal fence scythes through the Polish countryside,\u00a0covered with miles upon miles of barbs and topped with razor wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Border checkpoints are also reinforced with huge concrete slabs, each weighing more than 1.5 tonnes, along with secondary walls and barbed-wire fencing.<\/p>\n

Sikorski spoke to BBCR4 amid discussions about soaring illegal migration figures in Britain, with\u00a020,000 migrants said to have arrived in Britain via small boats<\/a>\u00a0crossing the Channel so far in 2025.<\/p>\n

Now, Polish authorities are proceeding full steam ahead with a new project \u2013 East Shield \u2013 which aims to transform its entire frontier with\u00a0Belarus\u00a0and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad into one gigantic, closely surveilled fortification.<\/p>\n

The 400-mile-long construction, announced last year and targeted for completion in 2028, arguably constitutes the single most significant national security investment in Poland\u2019s post-war history at more than \u00a32 billion.<\/p>\n

It was green-lit by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk\u2019s government in response to Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine, and Moscow and Minsk\u2019s so-called hybrid war tactics.<\/p>\n

In addition to the barbed wire-topped fencing, concrete reinforcements and secondary defences, the East Shield will see strips of land turned into minefields and littered with anti-tank fortifications including steel and concrete hedgehogs, \u2018dragon\u2019s teeth\u2019 obstacles and deep trenches, along with drone defence equipment.<\/p>\n

This multi-layered line of defence is expected to extend more than 200 metres back from the initial border wall.<\/p>\n

Behind these defences, Warsaw is constructing bunkers, firing posts and other military infrastructure in the forests, woods and small villages spanning the length of the country to provide yet more resistance should the deterrent fail.<\/p>\n

According to details provided by the government, the programme will also employ state-of-the-art surveillance equipment, including imagery intelligence (IMINT), signals intelligence (SIGINT), and acoustic monitoring to improve situational awareness of the would-be battlefield.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Worth reading in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Poland of course is an EU member and an ECHR signatory, so it seems those are no barrier to these kinds of measures \u2013 Yvette Cooper take note. It\u2019s amazing how accommodating Europe can be when it feels like it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poland Stops 98% of Illegal Migrant Crossings with a 116-Mile, 16ft-High Border Wall \u2013 and Now it\u2019s Adding a Minefield Poland cut illegal immigration from Belarus by 98% after building a 116-mile border wall \u2013 and now Donald Tusk\u2019s Government is adding a minefield. Turns out robust clampdown on illegal entry is okay if it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illegals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}