Poles need to know that no one intends to protect us from migration. The real goal of the great reform of EU migration law is to recognize illegal migrants as legal and to relocate them to countries that have so far defended themselves against waves of migrants, including Poland.
It is true that EU officials are currently only talking about… 30,000 migrants sent to Poland annually from 2026. However, a simple calculation of the size of illegal migration to Europe (1.3 million asylum applications in 2023) shows that Poland’s share in accepting migrants will quickly grow to over 100,000 relocated migrants annually! It is also important to know that the decision on the scale of relocation will be made without Poland’s significant participation, as will the decision on the amount of the “buyback” by which Poland could be exempted from the obligation to accept a migrant. The qualified majority in these matters is held by the countries affected by the migration crisis, and Poland does not have the right to veto.
What does this wave of migration mean? According to data from the European agency Eurostat, despite hundreds of thousands of decisions being issued ordering people to leave the EU, only 22.9 percent of illegal migrants are successfully expelled. The rest, taking advantage of the inefficient system, continue to live in the EU. That’s millions of illegal arrivals.
