Appeal to Poles in the United States
Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that he asked abroad Minister Radosław Sikorski to prepare Polish consulates in the United States for possible deportations of Poles from the USA, in consequence to announcements of president Donald Trump.
Shortly after that, the head of Polish diplomacy referred to the case, informing that people with expired passports were asked to renew them. He pointed out that additional consular posts would be organised in the US, besides outside the consulate headquarters. He besides stressed that it is besides worth doing so in order to let voting in the upcoming presidential elections in Poland.
Threatened by numbers deportation
Henryka Mościcka-Dendys, Vice-Chief of the Ministry of abroad Affairs, informed that Polish consuls estimation that the number of Poles who may be deported from the US is up to 30,000 people in the full United States. She pointed out that the ministry was working on a precise determination of this number.
The Vice-President of the Ministry of abroad Affairs noted that people who are exposed to the announced deportation may seem ‘untypical’ in the context of the conventional thought of illegal immigrants. They are frequently Poles who left for the United States in the 1990s and did not regulate their migration status.
Trump Regulation
On Monday, immediately after his swearing in, Donald Trump signed a number of regulations and documents, including declaring a state of emergency on the Mexican border and making changes to the applicable land law that enabled American citizenship to be acquired by birth in the United States. Under the fresh rules, this law will not cover children of illegal immigrants and people residing in the US for a short period of time, including, for example, a visa-free programme.
Trump's regulation was issued at the time the US authorities announced sending extra troops to the border and introduced an extension of procedures to accelerate deportations. In addition, the United States has decided to cancel all visits and procedures for refugees, which led to thousands of people stuck waiting to enter the country.
The White home press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, stated that Trump's actions send a “very strong signal” to people around the world. The order published on the White home website indicated that these measures are essential to prevent illegal entry into the US, their "entering" into American communities, and the burden on state authorities and local costs. Karoline Leavitt added that the border is “priority number one” for the president.
