The measures taken by Poland against a migratory invasion like the one in Ceuta

The migratory invasion suffered by Ceuta on July 30, 2026, whose effects persist, is not a unique case in the European Union.

Military of Belarus, backed by Russia, monitor migration attack on Poland
The Polish military and police forces defending the eastern border of the EU

In 2021, a few months before the start of Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, Belarus, an ally of Russia, launched a migrant invasion against Poland, and on a smaller scale against Lithuania and Latvia. The objective was to destabilize three NATO countries amid preparations for the invasion of Ukraine, and the method used was to transport tens of thousands of migrants from the Middle East to Belarus and direct them toward the Polish border.

Poland's response to this migratory invasion was very different from that adopted by Pedro Sánchez's government, which, after taking a week's vacation following a superficial resolution of the problem, has today published a royal decree to house thousands of immigrants in Ceuta for months, consolidating the invasion instead of expelling the invaders. From the very beginning of the migratory invasion originating in Belarus and clearly orchestrated by the Kremlin, the conservative Polish government of Mateusz Morawiecki adopted measures aimed at curbing and discouraging the invasion:

• It fortified the Polish border with Belarus, constructing a large fence with barbed wire, video cameras and sensors to detect illegal attempts to enter.
• The Polish Army has been deployed to support the Border Guard; these are soldiers equipped with firearms, as many of the border assaults have been violent. This military deployment included soldiers from four divisions of the Ground Forces, reservists from the Territorial Defence Force (WOT), and members of the Military Gendarmerie, the Polish Army's joint-arms military police force. The 2nd Lublin Brigade of the WOT even deployed a cavalry unit, very well suited to the terrain of eastern Poland.
• Summary return of illegal immigrants who managed to enter Poland. The mere fact that they managed to cross the border illegally did not lead to a policy of accepting the status quo that benefited the assailants, as has happened in Spain, but quite the opposite. The immigrants were returned immediately, thus discouraging their attempts to storm the border.
• Declaration of a state of emergency in the border voivodeships with Belarus, Podlakia and Lublin. A logical measure in the face of a direct threat to state security, in order to prevent NGO activists from accessing the border and profiting from this problem.
• Severe restrictions on the right to asylum. A measure based on national security and aimed at preventing asylum applications from being used as an excuse to entrench the situation and further the aims of the Belarusian dictatorship of Lukashenko and his ally Vladimir Putin.

These are the measures one would expect from a government that takes the defense of its borders seriously in the face of a migratory invasion like the one suffered by Poland. Instead, in the case of Ceuta, Pedro Sánchez has decided to praise the invading country, Morocco, passing the buck to the residents of that Spanish city, while he went on vacation. Shameful behavior.

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Photo: Wojska Obrony Terytorialnej.