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The refugee crisis on the border between Poland and Belarus began in the summer. It ramped up in June when Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko warned his country would no longer make any effort to stop illegal immigration into the EU. Brussels has accused Minsk of flying thousands of people in and shuttling them to the border as a form of warfare. Most of the asylum seekers are from the Middle East. In October, Warsaw reported that more than 23,000 migrants have tried to cross the Polish-Belarusian border.
Poland has also come under criticism for its handling of the migrant crisis.
Despite its EU obligations to accept asylum applications, Poland refuses to allow people to cross the border, leaving many stuck in no-man's-land with a serious lack of food, shelter and other provisions. In September, Warsaw's treatment of the migrants was criticized by London-based human rights NGO Amnesty International, which accused Warsaw of the "unlawful forced return" of Afghan citizens who were taken back across the border after successfully crossing into Poland.
"I mean, had the FBI looked into what was in that dossier and found that it was all patently false, they could tell us that now, right? I mean, the dossier has now been publicly released. If the FBI looked into it and they found it was all trash, there's no reason they can't tell us that now. They're not telling us that now. They're not saying that. They're not saying anything."

"But I think what the American people are going to see is we have put in place the strategies, the actions, to turn that around. They are in a 'show me, don't tell me' mode. I think we are going to show them in the weeks and months ahead that we have made this progress on COVID. We have made this progress on the economy. We are past now, the infrastructure bill. We can start to get going on implementing that. I think that will pay off results."Mr. Biden's top aide spoke after Democrats lost the governor's mansion in Virginia and suffered through bruising elections elsewhere, including a closer-than-expected governor's race in New Jersey.
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