“We did not take this job to let illegal migrants in, but to guard Poland’s borders,” an officer from the Border Guard post in Zielona Góra tells “Gazeta Polska Codziennie.” It is here that resistance to Prime Minister Tusk’s open-border policy toward illegal migrants is strongest. The revolt is being quashed by an order from the very top—Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak has instructed that migrants arriving from Germany must be accepted.
A member of the Nadodrzański Border Guard Unit in Zielona Góra tells “GPC” that discontent among officers has been growing for many weeks.
“We see the pointlessness of our work, because de facto we are legalising the stay of these immigrants in Poland. Instead of guarding the border, we collect them from the German services at the crossings.”
Identical birth dates
Officers at the post are the most rebellious toward the open-border policy adopted by Donald Tusk’s government team. They have protested to their superiors many times.
“But we have to obey orders, because they come from the very top—and not from our own command, but from Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak.”
In practice, Polish officers now serve the German services: every day, dozens of illegal migrants are handed over by the German police at Poland’s western border.
“The procedure is as follows,” explains MP Dariusz Matecki. “The Germans bring the migrants to the border. In the paperwork, they write that the people came from Poland to Germany. They can record any information they like. Often, for instance, an entire group delivered to Poland will share the same birth date. This cannot be verified because these people have no passports. The Polish Border Guard transfers them to its vehicles and takes them to the station on Żołnierska Street, where temporary ID documents with photographs are issued. Then they are released into the city with information that they can seek help from, for example, Caritas or religious communities.”
Matecki adds that this is happening on a mass scale at the border crossings in Rosówek, Lubieszyn, Kołbaskowo and Ahlbeck in Świnoujście.
“This situation is extremely dangerous, because we do not know who these people are,” MP Matecki continues. “If they are from Somalia, they may be coming from war zones—criminals, including those who commit crimes against children. After all, in Somalia, eight-year-old girls can be forced into marriage. This is an enormous threat that should topple this government. Yet instead of talking about it, they talk about Giertych and claim the elections were rigged.”