Migrants on new route to Europe get trapped between borders

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : They plan to seek asylum there.
47% : With six migrants found dead along the border so far, human rights workers are appalled and insist that Poland must respect its obligations under international law to allow the migrants to apply for asylum, and not push them back across the border.
41% : The European Union has condemned the Belarusian actions as a form of
41% : But after the arrival of more than a million people in 2015, European Union nations put up concrete and razor-wire walls, installed drone surveillance and cut deals with Turkey and Libya to keep migrants away.
40% : 'œThe fact that these are Lukashenko's political actions directed against Poland and directed against the European Union is obvious to us," said Marianna Wartecka with the refugee rights group Fundacja Ocalenie.
36% : Poland denied entry to thousands of migrants and refused to let them apply for asylum, violating international human rights conventions.

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