'The government's priority is the safety of Polish citizens,' the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Poland has sent more than 900 troops to the border and set up a barbed-wire fence to deter Belarus migrants, the Associated Press reported.
About 2,100 people have tried to illegally cross the border so far this month, the Defense Ministry said in a statement Wednesday. Border guards were able to stop 1,342 from entering the country and 758"were detained and imprisoned in closed centers." Poland, like the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, accuse the authoritarian government of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of sending migrants across their borders, which also form part of theTwo lawmakers from the opposition party Civic Platform party brought blankets, sleeping bags and food to a group of some 50 people trapped in a no-man's land between Poland and Belarus on Wednesday.
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