The country’s authorities lack the tools to monitor uncontrolled migration, the deputy speaker has said
Poland’s police and security services want to reinstate visas for some countries, including Ukraine, a senior opposition lawmaker said on Monday.
Warsaw, which has been one of Ukraine’s main backers since the escalation of the conflict with Russia in 2022, initially welcomed more than a million refugees from its eastern neighbor. However, public and political attitudes toward these asylum seekers have shifted recently.
Krzysztof Bosak, deputy speaker of the lower house of parliament and a leader of the right-wing Confederation party, said the position was relayed informally to him by law enforcement and security agencies. In a post on social media, he wrote that “unofficially, police officers and [public] services would like to see the return of visas.”
He accused politicians from the ruling coalition of ignoring these concerns. According to Bosak, those in power “do not provide sufficient funds or tools to supervise mass, multicultural immigration from the post-Soviet area.”
Bosak’s Confederation party has been a vocal critic of the government’s migration policies and has pushed for stricter border controls.
The vice-speaker’s remarks follow the recent detention of a Ukrainian citizen in the northern city of Sopot. The 36-year-old man, identified as Ihor H., has been accused of attempting to sabotage electrical equipment at the city’s water supply facilities.
Earlier, Bosak accused the Polish authorities of letting criminals into the country and suggested that the Schengen zone could soon cease to exist.
Social tensions have been mounting in Poland, as some citizens reportedly view Ukrainian immigrants as freeloaders or potential criminals. Government data indicates that at least 2.5 million Ukrainians now reside in Poland, comprising nearly 7% of the population.
Public support for Ukrainian refugees has also declined sharply. A March 2025 poll by the CBOS Center showed that just 50% of Poles favored accepting them—down from 81% in 2023. While around one million Ukrainians are officially registered as having arrived since 2022, Poland has allocated 4.2% of its GDP to supporting them, according to the BBC.
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