People who have already managed to cross into poland can ask for asylum, provided they are not pushed back. We know that these people, for the most part, are just stranded there, and we don't know what's going to happen to them next. And that's why it's so important to talk about this and, you know, and to use humanizing language and to talk about these human stories above all else.
Belarus is promising migrants passage to Europe knowing the EU will turn them away.
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