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Colonel Jaroslaw Kembrowski, the military attache of Poland’s embassy in Belarus, was summoned by the defence ministry in Minsk over the border migrant crisis. That’s what the ministry’s press service told Belarusian Belta news agency. An estimated 3,000-4,000 migrants have already gathered at the border on the Belarusian side. Over 10,000 …

The ongoing migrant crisis at the Belarusian border could devolve into an “armed” escalation, Polish government spokesman Piotr Muller told reporters on Monday. “We expect that there may be an escalation of this type of action on the Polish border in the near future, which will be of an armed …

“We must help the Polish government secure their external border. This would actually be the task of the European Commission. I’m now appealing to them to take action,” Seehofer told Bild newspaper on Tuesday. Some 3,000 migrants from the Middle East and Africa, who are looking to make it into …

A new Rasmussen poll found that 57% of respondents believe the government should not be paying settlements to thousands of suing migrant families. Last week, The Washington Post reported that the DOJ was considering payments of $450,000 to each member of families separated at the border. Thousands of migrants have …

State Department spokesman Ned Price urged Belarus to stop the alleged encouragement and facilitation of illegal migration. “As long as the regime and Belarus refuses to respect its international obligations and commitments, undermines the peace and security of Europe and continues to repress and abuse people seeking nothing more than …

The call for sanctions was made late on Monday after von der Leyen discussed the ongoing crisis with the Prime Ministers of Belarus’ immediate neighbors – Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. “I am calling on Member States to finally approve the extended sanctions regime on the Belarusian authorities responsible for this …

Biden was asked to make clear his position on the subject while speaking about the passage of a $1 trillion infrastructure package on Saturday. The president blamed former president Donald Trump’s “outrageous” zero tolerance approach to the border for separating families and leading to thousands of lawsuits against the Department …

On Thursday, White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that the president is “perfectly comfortable” with the Department of Justice settling lawsuits from migrant families. Reports that the migrants could receive millions in compensation surfaced last week, immediately drawing outrage. The president, however, appeared to later pour …

Thousands of migrants gathered in Tapachula, near the Mexico-Guatemala border, and are now making their way to Mexico City and eventually the US border. Among them are people fleeing Haiti, Venezuela, and multiple other Latin American countries.  Department of Homeland Security officials previously stated they were keeping an eye on …

Speaking to reporters in the coastal town of Loon-Plage on Saturday, Darmanin said that “the UK has not paid one penny to us” since Home Secretary Priti Patel offered France £54 million ($73 million) in July to stem the flow of migrants across the English Channel. The “British government has …