Poland Stops 98% of Illegal Migrant Crossings with a 116-Mile, 16ft-High Border Wall – and Now it’s Adding a Minefield
Poland cut illegal immigration from Belarus by 98% after building a 116-mile border wall – and now Donald Tusk’s Government is adding a minefield. Turns out robust clampdown on illegal entry is okay if it’s from Russia. The Mail has more.
Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has claimed a £300 million border wall has proven “98% effective” at preventing attempts of illegal migration from Belarus.
“We had large numbers of people who were invited by Russia and Belarus from the Middle East and Africa who were then pushed across the Polish-Belarusian border into Poland,” Sikorski told BBCR4’s Today programme.
Warsaw alleges that Minsk and Moscow have long been waging a “hybrid war”, seeking to flood Poland with refugees to strain the country’s finances and law enforcement resources, and destabilise civil society.
“This 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,” Sikorski declared.
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.
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.
The five-metre-high metal fence scythes through the Polish countryside, covered with miles upon miles of barbs and topped with razor wire.
Border checkpoints are also reinforced with huge concrete slabs, each weighing more than 1.5 tonnes, along with secondary walls and barbed-wire fencing.
Sikorski spoke to BBCR4 amid discussions about soaring illegal migration figures in Britain, with 20,000 migrants said to have arrived in Britain via small boats crossing the Channel so far in 2025.
Now, Polish authorities are proceeding full steam ahead with a new project – East Shield – which aims to transform its entire frontier with Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad into one gigantic, closely surveilled fortification.
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’s post-war history at more than £2 billion.
It was green-lit by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine, and Moscow and Minsk’s so-called hybrid war tactics.
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, ‘dragon’s teeth’ obstacles and deep trenches, along with drone defence equipment.
This multi-layered line of defence is expected to extend more than 200 metres back from the initial border wall.
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.
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.
Worth reading in full.
Poland of course is an EU member and an ECHR signatory, so it seems those are no barrier to these kinds of measures – Yvette Cooper take note. It’s amazing how accommodating Europe can be when it feels like it.
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At the same time Britain can’t keep out illegals despite having a 26 mile wide natural protective border.
Why?
Because the government doesn’t want to keep them out.
If they wanted to, they could.
The Establishment media’s concentration on Illegal replacements (migrants) is a distraction from the vast numbers of legal replacements being imported by the Establishment.
They did build a new security fence around the Houses of Parliament…
Hopefully, in that case, to stop the inhabitants from breaking out …
I wonder why they think they need that. After all, our legal representatives are lovely people.
So, Poland has shown that being a member of the ECHR is not an impediment to controlling immigration, they even have a pro-globalist PM in Tusk.
It’s simply a matter of will and ideology and it’s clear as day that there is not a single UK party that has the will to do what Poland has done.
They’re vermin, the lot of them.
Contrast this with Germany where a judge closely associated with the Green Party recently ruled that illegal immigrants must not even be rejected when crossing the border of a safe state to make an asylum claim in another state as the particulars of their case must be checked first and immigration activists are now sueing the government because rejections at the border continue based on the claim that the judgement was only applicable to the case in question, something the asylum lobby isn’t willing to accept.
This is all just a matter of political will and control of public institutions, there’s nothing “internationally” legally set in stone here.
ironic that Musk was one of the architects and cheer leaders of the invasion of Europe and the Uk
Was he? I never heard anything about that. Please explain a bit more.
Thanks to Will Jones & the DS for featuring this article, especially the impressive illustrations of exactly what both walls will look like.
Hats off to Poland!
This is in stark contrast to Starmer’s new “One in, one out” immigration policy.
It should be “One in, Ten Out… plus the One who came in”.
Well, well. This will be excused by Brussels as a response to Putin, who has the status of designated hate figure, against whom things can be said that could not be said against pillars of Enlightenment like Castro. The boast of “a big and beautiful fence” is positively Trumpian, but again this is different, Because Reasons.
It’s a pity they don’t take a flight to France, they’ll be chaperoned to Dover from there by the RNLI.
Donald Tusk is a total EU globalist so he is hardly doing this to stop illegal immigration.
He is playing the game of protecting Poland from a supposed Russian invasion in anticipation of Europe’s foreseen war with that country, which UK and other European countries are doing their best to encourage (while assuming USA will join them).
Radoslaw Sikorski is famous for his “Thank you, USA” message when the Nord Stream pipelines were blown up.