Let's not be afraid of migrants
Conversation with Janina Ochojska, Euro-Parliamentarian, president of the Polish Humanitarian Action
– Poland (Andrzej Domanski, Minister of Finance in the Government of Donald Tusk) voted in the Council of the European Union against the migration pact. Isn't it unusual that Tusk is the leader of the group from which you entered the European Parliament?
– The authoritative argument was that the representatives of the current government did not participate in the negotiations on this document. I besides voted against the pact in the European Parliament, but due to the fact that the procedures it contains are against human rights and can lead to negative consequences. Now the Prime Minister says that we will not accept migrants another than from Belarus and Ukraine. Personally, I think that Poland can afford to participate in relocation. We should show our solidarity, because, among another things, the European Union is built on it, especially due to the fact that those relocated are people already checked in the appropriate systems who want to accept protection in Poland for a fixed or limited time. If we had agreed to relocation in 2015, erstwhile Brussels offered us this, present we would not gotta bring in so many workers from Asia. The 7 1000 Syrians who could have come to us at that time were mostly educated or experienced in circumstantial professions.
"What is happening in Africa and any Asian countries is to a large degree a colonial legacy. Since Poland did not have a colony, let the migrants receive Italians, French, Belgians, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese.
– I disagree with that approach. I do not realize how my country, which is simply a country of solidarity, defends itself with its hands and legs from relocation, explaining that we have accepted refugees from Ukraine and never had a colony. Solidarity is about taking on a certain responsibility, as John Paul II said.
– It is simply a pity that this solidarity is so frequently forgotten by the strongest, France or Germany, and I do not mean simply relocation.
– The biggest problem is that the PiS has aroused a large fear of migrants. He was talking nonsense about the dangers. Has anyone heard of any threat in Poland? Did migrants do anything to harm the safety of the country or citizens? Of course, there could always be any individual cases where individual stole something or broke the law. But they frequently become victims themselves, that I will remind of the fresh savage execution committed in a young Belarusian female in the centre of Warsaw. Most of the most serious crimes are committed by white, Catholic Poles, which is evidently due to the law of large numbers.
